#Unetbootin for debian install
UNetbootin can be used to install a large number of Linux and BSD distributions, including rescue disks too. Back then, the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator couldn’t write Lubuntu (it can today), so UNetbootin was the answer and it did the job perfectly. In a way, netbooks were ahead of their time, not only small and light, they came without a CD/DVD optical drive which was how most Linux distributions were installed at that time. I first used UNetbootin in December 2010 to install Lubuntu 10.10 on a netbook, one of those mini-sized laptops that were popular back then.
#Unetbootin for debian software
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UNetbootin, short for “Universal Netboot Installer”, has been around for a while its first release was in April 2007. These days, lots of free software applications designed to write ISOs to USBs are available, including BalenaEtcher, Ventoy, and MultibootUSB, but I decided to try an old favorite, UNetbootin. It sort of worked, as it wrote Ubuntu Unity 20.10 to the stick, but it would not boot. My first attempt at a workaround was to use “dd” from the command-line.
#Unetbootin for debian iso
Startup Disk Creator would not accept the ISO file for writing. When I did my previous review of Ubuntu Unity 20.04 LTS, Startup Disk Creator was able to write that distribution, but I ran into an impasse with Ubuntu Unity 20.10. Startup Disk Creator comes already installed on all the Ubuntu flavors, it is easy to use and generally works fine on ISOs for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu. Normally, I use Ubuntu’s Startup Disk Creator to write the ISO to the USB. This means that the program became executable, so just type. Now, checking again the file with ls -l should give the following result: -rwxr-xr-x 1 name name 4478124 lug 11 15:28 unetbootin-linux-585 (don't forget to use Tab to autocomplete the long unetbootin name :P). How you do it? Simply typing: chmod +x unetbootin-linux-585 Which means you have to add execution permissions on it. You should see something like -rw-r-r- 1 name name 4478124 lug 11 15:28 unetbootin-linux-585 To make sure the file is really here, and to check permissions.
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When you have the terminal shell, don't forget to run ls -l To make the file executable via terminal (and we are here supposing you downloaded that file using a browser like Firefox or Opera), you only have to go to the folder where the file resides, right-click on the folder and select "Open terminal here". If you don't want to use terminal, you can right-click the file unetbootin-linux-585, select "properties", go to "permissions" and then tick "allow execution of the file as a program" (or something like that, i don't have an english-language o.s.).Īs suggested in the comment below, here's a little how-to about making a file executable: I had the same problem and that comment gave me the solution, without the need to add the ppa. As commented in your question by Web-E, you should just add the executable permission to the file downloaded from SourceForge, then you are able to run it (no installation needed, btw).