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Peachy
Asked: 2012-07-13 03:07:38 +0800 CST

Startup Disk Creator Uncaught Exception Error

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When creating a boot-able USB or LiveUSB with Startup Disk creator in Ubuntu 12.04, the following error message appears:

Installation Failed
An uncaught exception was raised: Invalid version string 'GNU/LINUX'

What does this mean? Is there a fix for this?

usb-creator

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  1. Best Answer

    Actually, this is not the documented bug mentioned by @SirCharlo. In fact, it's not really a bug at all. Startup Disk Creator is designed to only make Ubuntu startup disks. If you read the description of the program, it does actually say this, as I found out after the fact.

    In my case, I was trying to make a Debian startup disk, and it has an OS Version labled "Debian GNU/Linux...", and therefore the app will not use it to make the disk. Making a Ubuntu disk works perfectly.

    It would be nice if it gave a better error message, but the behavior is evidently by design.

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