I know it's an older video (about 3 years old at the time of this writing), but I found a thing called ventoy. A few other commenters here have mentioned it, but i wanted to put another vote for it. I LOVE the fact that ventoy allows you to put multiple ISOs onto one USB stick, and your able to boot from any of them (older operating systems, like windows XP don't work as far as I can tell, but hopefully people aren't trying to boot such an old system these days, unless it's for education only). I don't know if you have addressed that in later videos or not, as this is my 1st video from you, but if you have covered it in a later video, i apologize.
I followed this tutorial on my Macbook and I had some issues getting the tool to recognize my San disk USB. I think I did something wrong, but I also had a pc on hand and USBimager worked perfectly. Was able to boot Ubuntu on a tower I just got from Goodwill. Thanks for the video!
Thanks a lot for the video, your instructions worked like a charm. I have an 10-y/o PC that is now chugging along fine. I have some old drives I need to check for files and then purge. Quite a few drives actually. Rather than tie up home/office systems I got my old system up and running with Linux Mint. Cheers!
Vorget about any USB boot creation soft besides of the VENTOY!!! VENTOY creates USB drives with dynamical search of ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files at root of USB drive! It supports Linux and Win both.
I like the tool but I ran into a problem with it when I was trying to use it with Windows. I know this is a linux channel, but I wanted to be able to use the tool to make all my isos. The issue was that usbimager is not using a standard fat or ntfs partition, so when I want to put the drive into a windows computer to copy files, it can't read the drive. So I have an issue where I want to load drivers onto my install media. But I can't do that because it doesn't recognize the file system. Any thoughts, help on this would be appreciated.
Can I use the USB Drive for installation more than once. I mean like two PCs for example? Edit: I finally found the answer while installing, Thanks for the tutorial!
raspberry pi users can also use the raspberry pi imager and select a custom image to write ... i expect that a version also exists for use on the X86 raspberry pi desktop. An image is not bound to the os that is writing it to usb ...
on the Windows platform I have been using something called Ruby to create bootable USB sticks from ISOs. I use it in portable mode so nothing to install. I recently found out about it and it works like a charm. Not sure if there's a Linux version. Thanks for the video!
I used to use Ruby when I was on windows but I doubt it has a linux version but I will give a look see, thanks for mentioning it, its been 3yrs since I was on windows and forgot about Ruby :)
Is it normal on Windows to get "You need to format the disk in drive X before you can use it" after creating a bootable flash disk with this software? I remember using Rufus to create a bootable USB and with that, you could open the flash disk and see the Linux distro files inside. Just want to make sure things don't go wrong when I try to boot this USB up later.
Wow! Super detailed vid man! Question…how would I go about beginning the install process on a brand new bare bones Mini-PC? Would it be like booting up with the flash drive with the iso Ubuntu files on it?
Excellent presentation, thanks for your effort! What's your opinion on Ventoy? I've been using it lately to boot a variety of OSs (Win10, Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Proxmox, Hiren's Boot CD, Clonezilla, Alpine etc) as well as having other generic data on it, for the convenience of just dropping the ISOs onto a 64 GB USB drive and be done with it. However, I didn't look too much into the security aspects of using it. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Etcher is BAD. It doesn't mess up a disk per se, but it screws with partitions in a way that makes the disk unusable after burning an image, and you can't use windows to fix the USB afterwards. I find I have to use Seagate Disktools to fix it using a tool to add a disk, which will then wipe out what Etcher has done. But I feel it did mess up one of my disks to where it overheats.
Windows will not allow me to write on my usb drive. I removed the letter (F:) from the drive, then the usb drive disappeared from usbimager's menu. Thereby, it is no longer a valid drive.
Your linux distro has already an app for that, it was shown during the video. This way of using very bloated software like Balena or smaller apps like Rufus is right not too much hassle and in my view should become obsolete. Why not something like Ventoy? It does what Yumi does but much better. Hopefully in time booting an ISO on a computer should really be easy without the need to erase flash drives that are getting bigger and bigger. With Ventoy you can use the flash for plenty of ISOs as well as cat videos. No need to re-format every time..
Can I install Linux with only puting it inside of a pentdrive and then run in it into my new pc? Thanks your videos are very helpful. Also, could you make some videos how to solve boot problems on Linux mint??
Old guy, but new to linux. I use linux mint 20 and it has a usb stick fromatter, and a usb image writer program. They seem to work just fine. Is there an advantage to using another image writter program?
For some reason this isn't working for me. When I try to write the iso file into the storage device I get a message to format the disk, then an error message that says the disk is protected, so then I can't do anything. I'll keep trouble shooting, but any tips are appreciated!
If you saw that error on Windows, it's usually because the operating system doesn't do a good job with allowing a tool such as usbimager to wipe a drive properly. If you access "disk management" in Windows, you should be able to clear the partition table (delete all partitions). Sometimes, Windows will require you to create a new partition just to allow usbimager (or a similar tool) to manage the disk. I'm not sure why Windows has so many problems with managing disks. So basically, in short, access disk management, delete each partition, remove the drive and reinsert it, say yes when it prompts you to format the drive, accept all the defaults, then load usbimager and let it do its thing.
After writing to my flash drive using USBImager, the I get a message saying the drive needs formatted when I install it, but when I try to reformat it, I get a message that it is write protected. The USBImager will read the file from the flash drive. What is going on?
So midway through writing the file, USB Imager hit me with "This Drive doesn't Exist" and the windows no longer recognizes the drive in explorer, but it does show up in manager. what happened?
Thanks for the recommendation. What is wrong with the already installed "Startup Disk Creator v.0.3.7" with Ubuntu 20.04? Should we replace it with this one?
He did not say something is wrong with that package, he spoke about his preferred solution to create bootable flash drives and there was a mention about controversy in the package etcher.
hey im new to linux and i was kinda playing in the settings and i made a new user and set it as admin(no password) and my original admin account i accidentally set to standard and now i cant do anything in terminal ....honestly i dont even know how to word this because linux is just confusing to me ... please help me
I'm looking to install windows back on my PC. My old HDD died on me and didn't have a copy of windows on hand. But I had a copy of Linux Mint 20 on hand so I figure I could make a USB Bootable with Linux and re install Windows. Boy!!! What a Massive, Colossal and Supreme mistake. Nothing work on Linux mint properly for me. Woeusb is not installable any more and I'm going bunkers, no offense to Linux users but I don't have the time to be learning much of anything this days with a medical condition that prevents me from keeping up with all of this stuff anymore. I just need my windows back and I'm stuck. I need help making a windows bootable and every video on RU-vid Wants me to use Woeusb and it doesn't work. I did everything you show me here but it wont work for the windows ISO.
Hi I am from India Under Linux, I was using unetbootin and dd. Then etcher Under windows Rufus The usual problem is that we have to set the bootable flag manually Rufus has more options...(but difficult to understand for a layman) like MBR vs GPT, Legacy BIOS vs uefi, etc If something like Rufus is there for Linux (but no so confusing) it would be good
@10:55 (a) Jay, leave a secret for viewers at the end so from their comments you know they've watched to the end? (b) I'd vote for a tutorial on how to best use rsnapshot, timevault or timeshift, pros and cons, plus reliability/lifetime of external HD's (not a fan of cloud backups). I used to use rsync with cron, but I've used unison now for the longest time because I never needed nor wanted rollbacks (use git for that per project), just need the incremental backups, but, you know, one day...!! I saw your proxmox vdo, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NnKQnqoEm-I.html but I thought a simpler plain GNU+linux user tutorial on basic incremental snapshoting would be nice too.
@@instill2180 Hi, I meant in Ubuntu - I know he does it on the screen, but it goes by so fast I could not freeze frame & catch every individual step - at least not with my crappy scratchpad mouse :(
