[Solved] Restore .iso image onto a usb drive

[mikefrank]

So in osx and ubuntu I could just use unetbootin to install an .iso of an OS to a usb drive and make it bootable

I'm lost, since there is no UNetBootIn for salix. How do I a. Restore the .iso image to a usb drive and, b. make the drive bootable?

I want to put xubuntu on my other empty partition.

[mimosa]

Look up "how to install Salix on USB" in the wiki

Unetbootin doesn't work.

[mikefrank]

First it's in french, but fortunately I can make sense of it. It's exactly the same way I used before because I'm running salix on this machine. I've done this before both from Windows and Ubuntu.

The problem is I want to put a xubuntu .iso on a usb, and I'm currently running salix. Can I really just copy the contents of the .iso and it will work? Don't I have to "install" the contents and then make the drive bootable? That wiki entry is pretty useless.

[mimosa]

French? Useless? Xubuntu? Where to begin ... ?

Seriously: what exactly do you want to do? Make a bootable xubuntu usb? Try their forums, in that case.

[mikefrank]

I don't understand what's so complicated. Please read my post.

I'm running salix. I wan't to take an .iso of xubuntu, and put it on a usb drive so I can install it on my other partition.

1. How do I put an .iso image on a usb key? Can I just mount the iso and copy the contents?
2. How do I make a usb drive bootable after I've copied the contents to it?

I checked ubuntu forums and the only instructions they had were to use UNetBootIn or usb-creator to put it onto a usb drive. Salix has neither.

[tsuren]

if xubuntu works with unetbootin,

1) You can just install unetbootin on your machine. (with glapt, Search for unetbootin. Make sure to update the repository info on your local machine by clicking "update" before searching "unetbootin").
2) it will appear on the "system" section of the menu bar
3) enter your root pass
4) select xubuntu / iso as a source
5) select your usb drive
7) execute

Don't forget to insert your usb key to the machine.

[ElderDryas]

1) Xubuntu works with UNetBootin
2) UNetBootin is in the repos (make sure you have updated them)
3) Using Salix and UNetBootin to install a Xubuntu iso on a USB stick works (I just tried it)

I think the confusion stemmed from the fact that most people asking about Unetbootin here were trying to use UnetBootin to install the Salix Live CD to USB, which doesn't work (unlike UNetBootin and the Install Disc, which does indeed work).

[mikefrank]

Thanks guys. DIdn't think you could get UNetBootIn for Salix/slack. Updating repos and getting it right now.

[mikefrank]

UNetBootIn won't start. Does that mean I'm missing dependencies, and if so, what dependencies does UNetBootIn have?
I also tried dd if=/source-iso of=/destination-usb, but when I tried to boot from the drive if didn't work and booted back into salix.

[tsuren]

1) did you install it with gslapt?
2) did you check md5sum of the iso?
3) what kind of error message did you get?