I have a fedora system I have download ubuntu I want to write the iso image to a blamk cd so I can install it on another (windows computer) thats sick (windows is corrupt)   What command line options should I use (on the fedora machine) to write a BOOTABLE image to the cd so that when the windows box is booted it will see an ISO image and boot  I don't want simple answers.
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Is there any way to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from the terminal without using any third-party applications like , , ,  etc.  I tried to create a bootable Ubuntu flash drive with dd method,  sudo umount /dev/sdb sudo dd if=/path/to/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M   It creates files on the USB disk, but when I try to boot the USB disk it shows an Operating System Not Found error.
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I am trying to update the ISO image of Ubuntu using Jigdo . Can any one explain the exact way to do this ?
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I've downloaded the latest version of wubi, but for Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu, it is unable to find the metalink to download the iso. Is there any way to fix this, or do I have to manually dualboot?  If so, how do I manually dualboot? Thanks.
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This is the third time I've tried to install Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 64-bit on the same laptop, and each time it caused different problems.  Each time I wrote the same iso image to a USB flash drive by using a different application and OS.   Universal USB Installer (pendrivelinux.com) from Windows WinImage writer from Windows built-in image writer from Linux Mint 17.2    The iso image is the same in all three cases, the USB flash drive is the same, and the laptop is the same. However each time the installation of Ubuntu gave me different installation options. For example, the last time I installed Ubuntu, it didn't show all the packages to choose while installing (Basic Ubuntu server, etc.).
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What I need to achieve is   Create a Bootable USB drive from Windows 7 iso image using a Mac running. Use the flash drive to boot and install windows on a PC (not Mac)   What I'm looking for is an app like  but one that can run from OS X. This app make a bootable flash drive from a Windows iso image. I found a mac alternative to WinToFlash a while ago, but I don't remember the name.  All I can find is questions about making a bootable usb from a mac to a mac. I want to repair a Windows PC that doesn't startup but I have a working Mac computer, the target computer is a PC (not Apple).  A PC can't boot from a USB created with bootcamp which have MBR based BIOS.  UNetbootin doesn't seems to work with Windows iso's just Linux iso's.  P.S. the target PC have BIOS, it doesn't have UEFI.
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How do you install Cubic and use it to create a customized Ubuntu live CD *.iso file that can be burned to CD/DVD or copied to a bootable USB?
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Say I have two systems A and B.  I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on system A and need same set of settings in system B, for which I am thinking to make a bootable iso from System A(creating as a backup). so that I can make Live USB from the generated iso and boot the System B which will be now the replica of System A.  Could you please tell is there any method or tool in doing this process?
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I have downloaded Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS from .  In order to create a bootable DVD it is asking for an ISO image which I haven't found in the download folder.  Where is the .iso file?
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I have many CD ISOs downloaded from the Internet. They are each about 100 MB in size and consist of repair/diagnostic programs and other tools. Some of them are Linux-based; others are based on DOS clones, like FreeDOS. I want to put all of the ISOs onto one bootable DVD, so that when I use the DVD, I will get a menu prompting me to select the ISO I want to boot. How can I do this? I've seen some rescue CDs that are combinations of other people's ISOs, but I have no idea how they were made.  Regarding bounty: I, a different person than the OP, have placed a bounty on this question for a solution that meets ALL of these criteria:  Is for DVDs (not flash drives!!!) Is free Works with any ISO file, regardless of original OS
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I am looking at this:    I need to create a boot disk to test Ubuntu to make sure it will run on a PC (Compaq Mini CQ10-120LA) I was given. I can create the boot disk off of a Mac (in English) or Windows (but Windows is in Spanish and foreign to me).   Questions:     What format do I choose for the USB stick? (I wish the instructions stated this). What is Dash? (Will I know when I run the installer?) Can I do this from a Mac or Windows computer? Or only from Ubuntu?
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I recently tried to install Ubuntu Desktop on my laptop, but it wasn't successful, as I had the same problem on every startup.  The Ubuntu version I tried to install is 14.04, and it was downloaded from the official site. I had no clean disk, so I tried to install it from my USB. I went Ubuntu forums and found several ways to write my ubuntu.iso to USB. I had tried a lot of them, but every time I had the next problem: when Ubuntu is only loading, it writes something like No caching mode page found, which is going before Assuming drive cache: write through. After that the Ubuntu logo appears and five white dots under it. For 4 seconds all of them become red, and them nothing happens. The Ubuntu logo is just staying on the screen even after an hour of wating. For all this time the USB indicator is not flashing. I've tried to google this, but I had found nothing.   Then while searching forums, I found a way to install Ubuntu inside Windows (maybe it is important to mention that I have Windows 7 and Windows 8 installed on my laptop). So I mounted my ISO again and started wubi.exe where there was not any button to install it from inside. After several minutes I've got the issue: I typed H:\wubi.exe --force-wubi in my cmd, and it worked. I pressed Install Ubuntu inside Windows, followed the instructions, and reached the end of the installation. After this I really got a possibility to choose Ubuntu as the OS, but even than I get the same problem: nothing happens. But this time I got the message, which says that installation of Ubuntu will continue on Ubuntu booting. I can press the Esc key and choose different ways of its loading, but any of the options leads to the same problem. Except Verbose Mode, where text is first displayed and then the same problem appears.   Ubuntu is installed on the clean logic disk.  How can I fix this and continue the installation?  P.S.: Setting "nomodeset" in F6 menu on booting solved my problem.
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My question is simple =)  I am making a clone image using dd on the terminal on my Ubuntu system. I am saving it on external hdd. Now how do I upload that image to my 1 TB HDD thats in my tower. Also should I format that 1TB to EXT4 or NTFS.   Thank you in advance
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I'm running into trouble trying to mount a large iso:  dev@dev-OptiPlex-745:~$ sudo mount -o loop /home/dev/Hämtningar/matlab2011a_64.iso /cdrom mount: warning: /cdrom seems to be mounted read-only. dev@dev-OptiPlex-745:~$    Can you tell me how I should do it?
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I don't want to burn a CD, DVD or USB memory stick. And I don't care about saving the existing operating system (Linux Mint). I want to install Ubuntu (actually Kubuntu 12.04 LTS) to the computer directly from the ISO image. The image is for the Kubuntu Live DVD (3.5 GB).  The computer is now booted into Linux Mint. A set of command line steps would be satisfactory. In my mind, I simply need to trick the existing system into thinking I inserted a CD/DVD, right?  I know there is a similar question already but it does not have a good answer. The answer basically says, "see this link." I reviewed the link and I decided that StackExchange needs a good answer to this question. Furthermore, most answers at other places on the Internet assume the user is coming to Ubuntu from Windows. So I think this question is one that needs a good answer here. Thanks
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I have ten identical machines, and want to deploy the same Ubuntu 12.04 image on all of them. I've done a complete install on one of the machines, and cloned the disk using dd. The issue is that if I use dd to write this image to the disk of another machine, it will no longer boot. That is, the machine reports "no bootable devices found" on all machines except the one where I created the iamge.  I suspect that this may be due to something device- or machine-specific about the way the UEFI boot is set up, but I can't say for sure. I don't do anything out of the ordinary as far as I'm aware.  For what it's worth, running  on one of the clones does fix the problem and let the machine boot, but I'd rather not have to run that manually on every new machine I want to clone the image to. Also, this seems to tie the drive to that machine, so inserting a "fixed" drive into a machine other than the one Boot-Repair was run on will yield the "no bootable devices found" message again.  Clearly it must be possible to construct an image in such a way that the UEFI boot entries will work on any machines, as this is what the Ubuntu install image does, but I have no idea how it achieves that?  If it's of any help,  is the boot info file generated by Boot-Repair when it fixed the disk on a new machine.
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I want to burn Ubuntu Minimal CD ISO to an old, 1 GB USB thumbdrive. Regular ISO doesn't fit. I already tried Startup Disk Creator and Unetbootin but both failed. I tried installing GRUB and pointing it to boot like this:  insmod part_msdos linux /linux initrd /initrd.gz   but it doesn't work. I also tried dd but I ended up with not bootable drive.  Rufus worked on Windows with the same thumbdrive but I no longer use Windows.  What else can I do?
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I was using:  dd  if=/path/to/my/ubuntuiso/ubuntu.iso  of=/dev/sdb1  bs=4M  &amp;&amp;  sync   In order to create bootable Ubuntu USB drives on older Ubuntu versions. It was working perfectly. Sometimes I used the Startup Disk Creator program, which  worked well.  But when I use the same methods on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I get some warnings while formatting it afterwards.   The installation media works as expected, but when I try to format that USB stick after my work is done, I get the following warning :    The partitioning of that Pendrive looks strange :    And it also shows my 16GB pendrive as 64GB.  After struggling a lot with Gparted, I will somehow format it. But Why is it happening like this ?? Is there any better methods of creating bootable Ubuntu in 16.04 ?  EDIT : there is a related question . But my question is not about how to format it properly. My question is "How to create a bootable USB without that errors." &amp; "Wht are the causes of that error"