Disk Creator Mac

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Irecently downloaded the Lubuntu 12.04 LTS ISO for Power PC (I want to install it on an old iBook G4), but when I go to select the ISO in Startup Disk Creator, it just remains blank in the Source disc image (.iso) or CD: area.

I read this question: Startup Disk Creator is not showing the ISO image, but that didn't help. Neither did Startup disc creator not allowing any iso to be loaded or Why isn't Startup Disk Creator working in 12.04?.

Another option is to use the "Disks" application (a.k.a gnome-disk-utility, a.k.a. gnome-disks) which comes preinstalled with Ubuntu running Gnome (17.10 and up). I've just managed to create a bootable disk for Manjaro like this

In Startup Disk Creator, to be able to allow it to detect a .img file, change the default option, i.e from CD Images --> Disk Images in the bottom right corner dialog box.

And then I used Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator to make it a bootable Ubuntu USB stick (the .iso file is verified and not at fault). However, whenever I use the drive to boot I get a Boot error message. What's going wrong? How to fix this?Edit: No other distributions (Fedora, Debian, etc.) on other bootable USB disk creators (UnetBootin, etc.) work. The tool runs on Ubuntu 15.10; the file used is of Ubuntu 15.10.

I am having issues with permissions while trying to create a startup disk using Startup Disk Creator. I was able to accomplish this task by using UNetBootin but the disk it creates is failing to boot. Is there a way to start Startup Disk Creator from terminal as root?

I do not have access to an Ubuntu machine at the moment and "Startup Disk Creator" seems to be an Ubuntu app. In any case, what you can do is run ps to list running processes before and after running the program:

The current live image is for testing Ubuntu only to see which bugs are present in the development stage.

Yes it is... Ubuntu release is no until next month which it may be included in the final release April 2022.

Ubuntu ubuntu-22.04 2022-04-21 Final release of Ubuntu 22.04

That you may re-download the final version and re-install the new stable version of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

after the final release date, then it will have the proper keys and release file for updates.

If you are making an .iso to use for installing on a USB. Always use Etcher..

Etcher checks the checksum for you...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is still under development.. May still have bugs..

Other mean while you may submit a bug report:

Almost all laptop/desktop/tower/... computers are able to run all Ubuntu releases. I severely doubt that a Dell 5755 would be incapable of running Ubuntu 22.04.

The problem must be something else.

Remarks:

"Could not write the disk image (/home/ptosis/Downloads/ubuntu-20.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso to the device (/dev/sdb)"

This may indicate that the USB stick is defective. Have you tried other operations with that USB stick, e.g. writing files to it?

I want to install Arch from a USB but can get "Startup Disc Creator" to recognize the Arch iso file.

I am running Ubuntu 21.04 and 20.04 on two different machines and have tried this on both with the same results.

I run the startup disc creator and with a USB stick inserted in a USB port. it sees the drive and I can select the iso file but it never appears in the creator. All other iso appear. Only the iso for Arch never appears. I tried downloading the iso a few times, so that's not the problem. (bad download.)

Is there a different way to create a bootable USB with Arch?

I can burn a DVD and that works, but the machine I want to install on does not have a DVD drive.

Active@ Boot Disk Creator helps you prepare a bootable CD/DVD/Blu-ray or USB Flash mass storage device that you can use to start a machine with a damaged hard drive and recover data, recover partitions, wipe or erase data, create a disk image or repair security access issues.

If your USB Disk is not displayed in a combo-box, click the link below and initialize it properly. The only 32GB or less size partitions supported (for best compatibility with all types of BIOS & UEFI Secure Boot systems), so if you have 64GB USB, initialize it with the only 32GB partition.

If you've created ISO Image file, you can burn it up later on, either using our free Active@ ISO Burner utility (www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm), or have a disk burning utility that you prefer to use, use it to burn the ISO on a disk. Section 1.3.2 has instructions for some other utilities.

Let me start with the scenario that led me into issues with the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator. I had been running Ubuntu GNOME, a flavor of Ubuntu that was focused on a mostly vanilla install of Gnome on top of Ubuntu. Well, Ubuntu was finally getting rid of the Unity desktop, so the spin off that I had been using was no longer going to be updated. Fair enough.

Ubuntu has a page dedicated to the topic. Create a bootable USB stick on Ubuntu. This page walks through using the Startup Disk Creator. It does mention using an Ubuntu ISO image, but what should work for one, should work for most any ISO. At least this is what I thought. It turns out that if you are not using a Debian based distro, then the application will fail silently. It just sits there and does nothing.

At this point, I could have just used dd and been done with it, but I wanted to find out what was going on with the application, and why it was not working. Let me add a quick note and say, I had not tried a Debian based ISO on the application. This was because I wanted to try out the latest Fedora, and had not bothered to pull down another ISO.

Finding the source code for the USB Creator took a bit longer than planned. The code is hosted on LaunchPad which uses Bazaar as its version control system. Having used multiple systems over the years, launchpad felt like a step back in time. Unless I missed something, there is no easy search within a project, the navigation is antiquated, and the look and feels leaves a bit to be desired.

My first thought was to create a bug on the issue. Even if I was going to fix it, I wanted to ensure that the issue was being tracked, and to see if anyone else had submitted a bug on the topic already. I was surprised when I went to the bug page, and found that the package had not been configured for bug reports yet. At this point, I was more frustrated than anything else, and had decided I was going to use dd to create the usb disk, but I wanted find out what the problem in the code was.

Digging through the code, I found that the core of the application is a few python scripts. Nothing wrong there. I am a huge fan of python for a number of reasons. So, I dug into the code and found the issue rather quickly to my surprise.

The fact that this code fails silently, the code base does not provide for bug features, and that there is no documentation on this bug/feature is problematic. A simple review of this should have caught the problem. Also, as you can see in the previous section, they do log an error when the data can not be extracted, but they do nothing if the file format does not exist.

Startup Disk Creator (USB-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image. The tool is included by default in all releases after Ubuntu 8.04, and can be installed on Ubuntu 8.04. A KDE frontend was released for Ubuntu 8.10, and is currently included by default in Kubuntu installations. The KDE and Ubuntu frontend go under the names "usb-creator-kde" and "usb-creator-gtk", respectively.

The tool is available for Ubuntu (GNOME, from 11.04 up to 17.04 also their own called Unity) or Kubuntu (KDE) and also for Windows starting in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" but accessible only by inserting the Live CD or DVD into a CD-ROM/DVD-RW drive with Windows running.[1]

To see what USB devices you can make into startup disks are listed under the Disk to use heading on the screen. To see what the device is named look under the Device column. To change what the device is labeled is under the Label column. To see the max size of the USB drive is under the Capacity column.

To see what startup isos have been added are in columns for the top of the startup disk. To see the image or drive path to the file look at the CD-Drive/Image column. To see what version of an operating system view the OS Version column. To see how big your image size actually is view the Size column.

To actually create the disk press the Make Startup Disk button. A dialog will appear asking if you want to write the disk image and all data will be lost to make the disk press the Yes button. Another dialog box will show up asking for your to enter your password to make sure it is you making this disk and then the image will be written with a progress bar. Once done you will get a dialog saying The installation is complete and an OK button.

What I expected to Happen:

When creating the USB disk, after it was written the Finish Dialog should end and I should get the "please remove the usb disk and put it into the computer you would like to start it with" (or something to that effect)

So I mount and unmount the stick, unplug it and stick it in the computer to be booted and it boots just fine... but I am still staring at this Install Finishing... dialog box on my stick making computer. The cancel button does not click... it's just stuck.

Same symptom here on Natty. Trying to make a USB stick with Natty on it, trying to make a persistence file of 3 GB (I think? the maximum anyway). The USB stick itself is a 16GB stick from MicroCenter (their house brand).

also experienced the same trying to create USB image on SanDisk 8G drive and no persistent image using the 64-bit server 13.04 from both a 13.04 64-bit laptop and from a 12.10 32-bit laptop. The process hangs for along time, the light on the USB throbs, and then the application crashes causing apport to file a report on it. I also tried freshly reformatting the drive (FAT32) with the same result; the USB drive appears to have the ISO unpacked into the filesystem, but is perhaps failing on the bootloader stage (and the resulting USB will not boot)

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