[GRLUG] Laptop Fondling

[Ron Lauzon]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, <peyeps at iserv.net> wrote:
> Found that the easiest way to create the USB Live memory stick was to
> download the .ISO image on another machine with a CD burner and usb port.
> Burn the live CD to disk and load the live CD.  While running the live CD,
> there is a command line program usb-creator, that makes it easy to burn
> the boot USB drive, using the currently running live CD.

Have you tried Unetbootin? (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)

I used this to create a bootable thumbdrive to install Ubuntu to my
laptop.  It was quick and easy.

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