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Making a Bootable USB drive using an ISO file

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http://forums.opensuse.org – I have an ISO file that I need to make a bootable USB drive with... but I don't know of any apps native to openSUSE that can do this... can someone please tell me what I might use, and how? (Distributions)

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Submitted by bolly on 03/08/2010 – Made popular on 03/08/2010

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I'm trying to make a bootable installation USB drive. I've tried usb-creator-gtk, and it starts working only to fail with a segmentation fault, leaving a non-bootable drive. I've tried "unetbootin", and it makes a bootable drive that cannot even begin an installation successfully.

I'm trying to make a bootable USB drive for Ubuntu 12.04.1.

The USB drive created by unetbootin doesn't boot; it results in a "Disk I/O error" message.

In trying to create a bootable USB drive, PenDriveLinux installer reports a syntax error in syslinux and then says that the drive will not be bootable. And it isn't.

I need Windows for a few things, and while I love Ubuntu. I think I'll have to install Windows agian for a short period of time.

I got the .iso file on my desktop, and need to make it bootable from a flash drive.

I have a netbook that I would like to start using agan and and need to reinstall things (I think an update broke a bunch and it is faster to rebuild vs figuring it out. Anyways I have my Macbook Air that I would like to create a bootable usb drive on it to install Linux on my Netbook.

Most of the steps that I've found googling are for installing Ubuntu on a Mac, which is not what I want to do.

This question already has an answer here:

How do I install Ubuntu from an USB drive / create a live USB-stick?

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I have a leftover laptop drive and sata - usb adapter.

I am having issues installing 12.10 on a laptop from bootable USB Drive 4GB FAT32. Also I changed order on BIOS to boot from USB.

But only I see is the black screen with

SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 4.06-pre7 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 H. Peter Anvin et al _

I tried to install 12.10 into my older laptop using the same bootable USB drive just to be sure, and it's all works fine!

ITS KILLING ME OMG PLZ HELP SOMEBODY!!!:'(

This tutorial will explain how to make bootable installer usb flash drive for ubuntu server 12.10 in ubuntu desktop. In order to make a Bootable Ubuntu Server USB Stick you will need:A USB drive with at least 700 MB in size, Ubuntu Server 12.10 ISO image.

Hi,

Firstly, please excuse the naivety of my post but I am finding this whole thing a bit confusing!

My old laptop has died on me (Windows had a major seizure) - the hard drive is okay but the CD drive no longer works. I have taken out the hard drive and reformatted it.