Talk:How to: Using Unetbootin
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I'm a new user, and found this page unclear, for several reasons:
1. the link to this page from the "how do I use this?" link on the download page takes the user to the 'how to use' section, but if the user follows these instructions "as is", they won't have installed the prerequisites and made the file executable.
2. the installation of prerequisites should be listed BEFORE the instructions to download the file. Currently the user has to scroll up and down the page to work out what needs to be done in what order.
3. the text "Now get two modules on which Unetbootin depends. Run the following command from the Terminal. You may need to add repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list to make this command work. You might want to use http://code.google.com/p/pimpmyeee/ sh script to add the required repositories" is a show-stopper for new users. Which repositories must be added? and how? also, how exactly would the pimpmyee utility help?
I didn't want to edit the page because I don't know what repositories should be added, and because I have limited linux knowledge so didn't want to accidentally write something misleading.
I hope a more experienced user will be able to tidy this page into a more logical sequence and give a more accessible explanation.
--Iain m 19:26, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
I've wasted a long time fiddling around with Unetbootin, and it just wouldn't work for me ("disk error"). I went through several USB sticks because I suspected it was a hardware problem, with no success. I finally found Install: from a Live Ubuntu image on a USB stick, and followed the "How to configure a USB stick manually" instructions. Even there I had problems, but at least the USB stick would now boot as far as "cannot find the image /casper/.vml". It turned out that contrary to the instructions, the stick needs to be formatted as ext2, and made bootable with extlinux [mntdir] when mounted at [mntdir]. Once I had done that, installation succeeded without any further problems. --83.78.59.80 12:43, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
i'm experiencing difficulty running the script as i get the following error:
[root@box]# ./unetbootin-eeeubuntu-linux-276 ./unetbootin-eeeubuntu-linux-276: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by ./unetbootin-eeeubuntu-linux-276) [root@box]#
r7
I got the same GLIBC version error. I have been looking around and read at several places that Xandros even with most recent updates is out-of-date on GLIBC (among others). I have even seen the suggestion to change linux distribution to solve the problem which is exactly what we want to do... It makes me wonder how could these instructions even be succesful since my eee pc 1000 is the latest version and fails at this basic step.
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Thought I should make this article more global. Now it's not just suited to the generic linux distribution, but optimized for everyone. :D Just so everyone knows why it's changed so dramatically.
I think this page needs to give more alternatives in case of troubleshooting -
For example I've tried everything I can to get unetbootin working with windows, but the outputed USB drive is never bootable (my eeepc just has a flashing cursor).
Can we link to some common errors / solutions?
[edit] ISO Filetype
I've added the following paragraph:
- Make sure you select ISO as file type. UNetbootin defaults this to Floppy when you choose a file of the type *.img.iso, which will result in an error when you try to boot from the stick lateron.
I installed onto a SD-Card and hope this is not limited just to this case (and wrong for sticks).
--85.181.13.169 21:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
