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Unetbootin messes with the MBR, making the USB unbootable. Personally, I recommend Etcher at Etcher.io or Rufus if you're on Windows.
YUMI is decent too, if you have a lot of distros you want to try out, but it does mess with some distros like Solus or Linux Lite.
I'm starting to think I have way too much time on my hands... -
@azous
Yeah, I tried that with the sandisk but to no use. I could make it bootable no matter what I did.
@magicMirror
I read somewhere in SanDisk forums that these newer sandisk flashdrives are all coming not as removable drives, but as fixed drives. Something to do with a Windows 8 support, and that is what prevents it from being detected as a bootable removable drive in the BIOS.
@RiderExMachina
Thought about using Rufus, but didn't have a Windows PC at hand and the hassle of installing it in a vm was too great for me. Lucky I found an older flashdrive around here.
I thought that I used a 32GB flashdrive...
Since I've been seeing a lot of Linux distros, here's mine
Not a daily driver but something to get me used to...
Needed a flash drive, went to the store and got a SanDisk cruzer blade and figured 16gb for a mix of personal files and the eventual installation of a different distro would be enough.
Got home and went to give some work to my new red friend, my laptop was running lubuntu, used it for like 2 weeks, didn't like it that much, figured I could experiment with mint, downloaded the iso, ran unetbootin and voilá, got a bootable usb drive.
Only that no. I didn't. Tinkered with it the entire fucking day and I couldn't make my laptop's bios recognize it, tried with every possible format that disk utility could format into, tried with 3 different distros and nothing.
Feeling determined to thrash out my current system, I went on a scavenge hunt, trying to find a flash drive anywhere in the house, after a couple hours tossing papers and a number of different things aside, I finally found a 10 years old Verbatim, loaded mint in unetbootin and finally, a bootable usb drive. So thanks Linux god!
By the way, I'm installing xfce mint, anyone have some tips on customizing it?
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