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Asked: 2015-06-15 07:35:48 +0800 CST

mini.iso doesn't appear in Startup Disk Creator

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I am interested to make a clean install of Lubuntu Core with the mini.iso from a USB Stick. I am not interested to create a Live USB.

I've done my best to add from "Other" button form the Startup Disk Creator the mini.iso but doesn't appear anything like in here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick

I've tried also..

sudo chmod a+r "location"/mini.iso
usb-creator-gtk -i "location"/mini.iso

And when the Startup Disk Creator opens, the mini.iso still not appears.

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

apt-cache policy lubuntu-desktop
lubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 0.55
  Candidate: 0.55
  Version table:
 *** 0.55 0
        500 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I don't think that the old partition is Encrypted, when I installed Lubuntu I remember that I chose not to encrypt it... if this could be important for you. But better if you know exactly how to check it to be sure.

Thank you.

usb-creator

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    according to this site: http://www.maketecheasier.com/install-a-minimal-ubuntu-on-old-laptop/

    "You won’t be able to create a USB startup disk with this iso file, so the only way is to burn it into a bootable CD."

    BUT IT'S DATED...

    EDIT:

    Based on quick google search, Unetbootin should work fine: https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/unetbootin/

    Just select your mini.iso...

    I CAN CONFIRM, IT DOES WORK! (15.04)

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  2. I would like to be clear that with the mini.iso I am interested to make a clean install of Lubuntu Core... 

    lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 232.9G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0  18.6G  0 part /
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part 
├─sda3   8:3    0 102.5G  0 part /home
├─sda4   8:4    0 108.1G  0 part /windows
└─sda5   8:5    0   3.7G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   1   7.2G  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   1   7.2G  0 part /media/multix/0AA3-23B8
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

    I've tried the dd method but still nothing happened...

    I've tried like that:

        cd ~/Downloads/
    md5sum 'mini.iso'
a2502844750ecb6477d8fb4ff6b9aaf8  mini.iso

    md5sum is ok.

        cd ~/Downloads/  
    sudo su  
    dd if='mini.iso' of=/dev/sdb bs=4096
7936+0 records in
7936+0 records out
32505856 bytes (33 MB) copied, 2.33314 s, 13.9 MB/s

    When I access the USB Stick I can't see any files on it, but when I go to Startup Disk Creator the "Label" of the stick is "Firmware" now and the capacity of it is 6.0 MB and the free space from it is 6.0 MB too...

    THis is how it looks after I use dd

    lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 232.9G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0  18.6G  0 part /
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part 
├─sda3   8:3    0 102.5G  0 part /home
├─sda4   8:4    0 108.1G  0 part /windows
└─sda5   8:5    0   3.7G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   1   7.2G  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   1    25M  0 part 
└─sdb2   8:18   1     6M  0 part /media/multix/Firmware
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
loop1    7:1    0    31M  1 loop /media/iso

    It could be possible that the USB stick to be mounted? Can someone say it from this?

    sudo mkdir /media/iso/
sudo mount -o loop /home/multix/Downloads/mini.iso /media/isomount: block device /home/multix/Downloads/mini.iso is write-protected, mounting read-only
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