<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I think I came across this a couple years ago - the answer, alas, is to not use SDC, but the command line.<br><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">cd <span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">path/to/iso/dir</span><br>lsblk</span><br><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"># (identify the flash drive - likely /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or the likes)<br></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"># (you should be able to identify it by its size - or just remove the flash drive, run lsblk again, see what disappears)</span><br></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">sudo dd if=<span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">name_of_image.iso</span> of=<span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">/dev/sdc</span> <span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"># (as appropriate)</span></span></span><br></div><br></div>This will copy byte-for-byte the ISO to your flash drive, overwriting it completely. It will look like nothing is happening when you run the command, but that's just the 'dd' command - it's not verbose at all. Takes about 1-4 minutes depending on ISO side and write speed of the flash drive.<br><br></div>Note that if this is one of the official Ubuntu respins (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, etc) then it should be fine to boot from flash disk. Other ISOs may not have compatibility for being written to and booted from a flash disk.<br><br></div>You can convert an ISO to "hybrid" (CD and USB compatibility) by installing the syslinux utility and running isohybrid (which will modify the ISO file itself - maybe do this on a copy of the ISO)<br><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">sudo apt install <span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">syslinux</span><br>isohybrid <span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)">path/to/your.iso</span></span><br></div></div><br></div>Good luck<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><br>===<br>Tai Kedzierski<br><br></div><div>Affordable Office IT for Freelance and Startup Businesses<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://helpuse.com/" target="_blank">http://helpuse.com/</a><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span></span><font size="1"><img src="http://www.free-mac-programs.com/images/applications/libreoffice.png" height="19" width="19"> I use <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org" target="_blank">www.libreoffice.org</a><br><br><i>"Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price."</i><br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2015 at 01:08, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk" target="_blank">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div><div>Sorry I hit send too early by accident.<br></div><span class=""><div><br></div>I am trying to create a live CD on a
flash drive using Startup Disk Creator (SDC) in Ubuntu 14.04. I am
running into a known problem that does not seem to have a solution.
Namely, SDC does not load the selected .iso to load to the flash drive.
Here is a page where the problem is mentioned, with no solution:<br><br><a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/459931/startup-disk-creater-not-loading-iso-file-in-14-04" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/459931/startup-disk-creater-not-loading-iso-file-in-14-04</a><br><br></span></div><span class="">Any
ideas? I have tried all of the solutions mentioned there, including
moving the selected iso to its own dir. No luck. SDC still doesn't
load the iso.<br><br></span></div><span class="">I have also tried unetbootin. Unetbootin is
able to see and load the iso, but then the flash drive fails. I have
tried it on two separate flash drives and it failed both times. I did a
md5sum check and got this, which i think is a pass<div><div><br></div></div><br></span>ragingwaters@H8PL44D1:~$ cd /home/ragingwaters/Distros/<br>ragingwaters@H8PL44D1:~/Distros$ md5sum sanickiosk-v2.5.iso <br>2b8ab335f66750ac01f4769e5b3bbb56 sanickiosk-v2.5.iso<br>ragingwaters@H8PL44D1:~/Distros$<br><br></div>Thanks!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Christian Einfeldt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:einfeldt@gmail.com" target="_blank">einfeldt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I am trying to create a live CD on a flash drive using Startup Disk Creator (SDC) in Ubuntu 14.04. I am running into a known problem that does not seem to have a solution. Namely, SDC does not load the selected .iso to load to the flash drive. Here is a page where the problem is mentioned, with no solution:<br><br><a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/459931/startup-disk-creater-not-loading-iso-file-in-14-04" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/459931/startup-disk-creater-not-loading-iso-file-in-14-04</a><br><br></div>Any ideas? I have tried all of the solutions mentioned there, including moving the selected iso to its own dir. No luck. SDC still doesn't load the iso.<br><br></div>I have also tried unetbootin. Unetbootin is able to see and load the iso, but then the flash drive fails. I have tried it on two separate flash drives and it failed both times. I did a md5sum check and got this, which i think is a pass<span><font color="#888888"><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div>Christian Einfeldt</div>
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