Mac Install Disk Creator Download
Madeline Rinkenberger
I try to create a startup disk with Ubuntu 15.04 64bit on a 16G USB stick.When I start the "Startup Disk Creator", it will show progress of "Copying files..." until about 49% complete, then hangs forever. No error message shown, no hint if anything is still tried or being done or if I am looking at a corpse. When I press the "Cancel" button I get a confirmation dialog showing "Do you want to quit the installation now?" but when I click "Quit" there, now that dialog also hangs.After killing the process, when I retried but disabling the extra data region of 1G that it creates by default, the process indicator went to 96% complete and then kept being stuck there.
Startup Disk Creator is known to having issues. Use the Disks tool to create the Ubuntu USB installation medium. Open Disks and select the USB drive (on the left) to be used as medium.
Then select Restore Disk Image from the menu on the top right of the application. Choose the
Ubuntu installation ISO file - check if the USB drive to write it to is correct and Start restoring.
The Startup Disk Creator in versions before Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was affected by several bugs. It was an extracting tool. But in 16.04 LTS, the Startup Disk Creator was converted to a cloning tool, which is very reliable.
I have a 32 GB USB pendrive which I'd like to use as both a startup/installation disk for Ubuntu, and for regular file storage/transfer purposes. Since the Ubuntu installation stuff only needs a little under 3 GB, I thought this would be no problem, but it has turned out to be harder than I thought.
My plan was to create two partitions on the drive - one 4GB that I can wipe at any time and use for installation media, and one with the rest of the space that I can use for data (and won't have to wipe when I create a new installation disk). Creating the partitions posed no problems - gparted did that without complaining - but installing the Ubuntu installation stuff has turned out to be harder than I thought.
In the "Startup Disc Creator" program, I can't select the USB drive's partiions individually - just the entire drive. And if I don't press "Erase disk", I'm not allowed to start the installation. I've tried setting the "boot" flag on the partition I want to use, but it didn't matter. It seems the startup disc creator program isn't "partition aware" - is it? Or do I need to do this with another program?
I found a way around this however. I used GParted to delete and recreate the two empty partitions but this time making them FAT32 partitions (the same as the first partition) and also making them both Primary partitions. Once this was done the Startup Disk Creator recognised all three partitions and I was able to use one of them to create a Startup Disk, whilst keeping my content on the first partition. I am not sure why this worked, but it did.
You can keep the live ISOs and your data on the same partition when using MultiSystem, because they do not affect each other and live alongside without concern. That is because MultiSystem install GRUB2 on your drive, managing the ISOs and a couple of tools but not caring about whatever else is on the drive.
Therefore, instead of managing two partitions, you could create a folder in the root directory of your only partition called "Data" (or whatever suits you) and use that folder just like you would have used your data partition.
Alternatively, you could just drop your data directly into the root directory of your drive, though that would require you to be careful about not touching the files MultiSystem requires to boot your live ISO.
I used NetBootin to install to the partition I wanted. My Data partition was NTFS and my Ubuntu partition was ext2, but you could probably use ext4. UnetBootin didn't even acknowkledge the NTFS partition, and instead automatically selected the ext2 partition, and install went well. The Boot Disc Creator didnt work for me either.
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 recently 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.
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I was trying to create a USB bootable in Debian to install my new system. I couldn't find any easy to use tool in Debian. I tried downloading the hybrid ISO image from the Debian site and copied it to the USB using the dd command as said in Debian site, but it didn't boot.
I have used the copy (cp) command for this. It did take me a couple of tries, though. The trick that seemed to make the difference for me was to plug the usb drive in, format it as MBR, but not create any partitions. In Debian (Gnome), this is easy to do from gnome-disks (called simply Disks in the GUI, while the package name is gnome-disk-utility). It can also be done using the gparted GUI program. Of course, you will lose any data currently on the USB drive when you format it.
So you're copying to a drive (that is unmounted), not to a particular partition. Then in the Disks GUI, when you click on the newly created partition on the USB drive, you should see (Bootable) next to the entry for Partition Type. If not, it may help to do the following:
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.
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)
This is probably a duplicate - I just tried making a bootable USB with ubuntu-12.04.3-desktop-i386.iso on my Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit, with a new Sony 8 gig stick, twice. The first time I came back to find that it had crashed and launched the bug reporter, and the second it just stuck on "Finishing", and the light on the USB had stopped blinking. All the options are set at their default values.
Someone here =1625149 had recommended trying the KDE version (usb-creator-kde), I'll try it and get back.
For me, it was just matter of time.
I also thought there is something wrong at the first but it was just taking 10 mins to finish.
The time will depend on which version or model of USB driver you are using.