jasluna.blogg.se - Universal usb installer for mac

If you’re using Ubuntu (or another Linux distribution) you do not need to install the app. Download the latest Etcher release from Etcher.io and install it (if required). This makes it an ideal tool to recommend as the following steps will, more or less, be the same no-matter which operating system you are reading from!Īnd although plenty of other apps exist that do a similar job, we find Etcher the easiest tool to use to create a USB installer for Ubuntu.ġ. It is available for all major desktop operating systems: Windows, macOS and Linux. Create a USB Installer On Any OS Using EtcherĮtcher is a free, open-source image writing tool created by Resin.io.

It shows how to make a bootable Ubuntu USB drive using an open-source, cross-platform image writer called Etcher. This guide is more universal and, we think, much simpler. We wrote a similar guide to this one back in April though, in that guide, we covered different solutions for each operating systems, Windows, macOS and Linux in turn. That’s in my opinion of course, but computers are increasingly being sold without an optical disc drive, and besides: USB drives are re-writeable and reusable. If you want to do a clean install of Ubuntu 16.10 when it lands next week, or install it on a different computer, then a bootable flash drive is the way to go. I then edited /media/usb/boot/grub.cfg to add an. Mount ~/ /media/iso/ -o loopĬp /media/iso/boot/grub/grub.cfg /media/usb/boot/grub/ # mount ISO image, copy existing grub.cfg

Grub-install -force -no-floppy -root-directory=/media/usb /dev/sdĬp ~/ /media/usb I was able to get halfway there - it booted from USB, displayed the grub menu and started the installation, but the installation did not complete.įor reference, this is the closest I got: sudo su

a related question on the Linux Stackexchange.

(The command sudo unetbootin lang=en method=diskimage isofile=~/ installtype=USB targetdrive=/dev/sdg1 autoinstall=yes gives an error message unetbootin: cannot connect to X server.)Īlso tried GRUB fiddling: Merging information from

unetbootin scripting: Requires X server (graphics support) to run, even when fully scripted.

casper, filesystem.manifest, menu.lst) exist in the ISO image, and I don't know what has replaced them.

"Create manually" instructions at : None of the files and directories described (e.g.

usb-creator: According to apt-cache search usb-creator and Wikipedia usb-creator only exists as a graphical tool.

Create bootable USB on Mac OS X following the "create USB drive" instructions for Mac: Doesn't boot.

How can I do the same using only the command line? I have done this before following the " create USB drive" instructions for Ubuntu desktop, but I don't have an Ubuntu desktop available. I'm trying to create a bootable USB image to install Ubuntu on a new computer.