[Solved] Restore .iso image onto a usb drive

[mikefrank]

Yes, I installed with gslapt
No, I didn't check the md5sum. What is it and how do I check it? What does the info in it tell me?
No Error message, it just won't start. The icon bounces a few times and it looks like it's loading, but it just doesn't start.

[tsuren]

do the followings on your terminal:

md5sum salixlive.....iso

and compare it to the md5sum value from the xubuntu site.

Ah, by the way, did you start the application as root?

[mikefrank]

md5sum is the same as the one on the xubuntu site.
No, I didn't start it as root. There is no right click, start as root option. As root in the terminal I don't know what the command is to start unetbootin. How do I open it as root outside of the terminal, or inside? It would be useful to know both for future reference. Thanks.

[tsuren]

I guess you are using KDE.

[mikefrank]

Yes, I am. Will it not work in KDE, do I need gnome?

[mikefrank]

Also, is there some kind of dictionary of terminal commands? It would speed up my learning curve if I could just read through it all.

[tsuren]

Here is a good place to start
http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=852

There is also a section on command line stuff on the start up guide.

I am not so familiar with KDE. But i will just check it on my other partition which has KDE on it.

Meanwhile, try this:

1) open a terminal
2) type in: su - (don't forget this small - at the end. normally you don't have to do this. but due to a bug in unetbootin, this is necessary)
3) type in your root password
4) type: unetbootin

[mikefrank]

Tried that and got this error:

No protocol specified
unetbootin: cannot connect to X server :0

[mimosa]

http://www.tuxfiles.org

is also a good resource

as is

http://www.linuxquestions.org

both for asking questions and for searching.

Try:

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xhost +

*before* typing su - to change to root user. Just a stab in the dark ... unetbootin works normally here without it.

[mikefrank]

That worked! Unetbootin works now!
What did xhost + do to fix it? It said disabled access control, so I probably did something stupid that I didn't know about that enabled it. I just wish I knew what I did so I could learn from this.

Thanks for all the help guys, I really do appreciate it!