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From: davesurrey on 28 Jan 2010 19:49 Does anyone here have any experience using Unetbootin? I have spent a lot of time today searching through google but the info is poor and repetitive and I'm still unsure off what Unetbootin can do. I know it can take an iso of a (selected) linux distro and install it onto a USB stick with the correct boot loaders etc so the distro can be booted directly from the usb stick. But..it also has a "frugal" HDD install mode. I read today that someone says they have has used it to install Linux Mint * to a Windows XP (ntfs) partition. I tried to do this but can't get it to boot although I see the Mint squashfs file. I have also modified grub (it uses grub4dos) to add a stanza for Mint. But no joy. It starts to boot but then stops saying can't find init. I would ask the original poster what he did but he is very new and confused and says he doesn't know how he did it. Frankly I am unsure if he really has installed to the windows partition or another one. I don't want to waste any more time if this is undo-able but if it's possible it seems very interesting. Any inputs welcome Dave
From: Tony Houghton on 28 Jan 2010 20:44 In <4b6230a7$0$2522$da0feed9(a)news.zen.co.uk>, davesurrey <dave(a)antispam.invalid> wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience using Unetbootin? > > I have spent a lot of time today searching through google but the info is > poor and repetitive and I'm still unsure off what Unetbootin can do. > I know it can take an iso of a (selected) linux distro and install it onto a > USB stick with the correct boot loaders etc so the distro can be booted > directly from the usb stick. > But..it also has a "frugal" HDD install mode. I read today that someone says > they have has used it to install Linux Mint * to a Windows XP (ntfs) > partition. I tried to do this but can't get it to boot although I see the > Mint squashfs file. I have also modified grub (it uses grub4dos) to add a > stanza for Mint. But no joy. It starts to boot but then stops saying can't > find init. > > I would ask the original poster what he did but he is very new and confused > and says he doesn't know how he did it. Frankly I am unsure if he really has > installed to the windows partition or another one. > > I don't want to waste any more time if this is undo-able but if it's > possible it seems very interesting. > Any inputs welcome I recently used Unetbootin on Debian unstable to install Mint 8 on a USB stick (FAT16). I'd previously tried to use usbcreator on Ubunto 9.10, but the stick failed to boot. I downloaded a new ISO in case mine was corrupted, but that wouldn't even boot from CD, but putting that same image on a USB stick with unetbootin was successful! I wonder if your friend really installed it to a FAT partition rather than NTFS. It looks like you can get syslinux to boot from NTFS though. Have a look at the sdi.txt file that comes with it (/usr/share/doc/syslinux-common/sdi.txt.gz on Debian-based systems). -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
From: davesurrey on 28 Jan 2010 21:01 "Tony Houghton" <h(a)realh.co.uk> wrote in message news:slrnhm4fck.bu0.h(a)realh.co.uk... > In <4b6230a7$0$2522$da0feed9(a)news.zen.co.uk>, > davesurrey <dave(a)antispam.invalid> wrote: > >> Does anyone here have any experience using Unetbootin? >> >> I have spent a lot of time today searching through google but the info is >> poor and repetitive and I'm still unsure off what Unetbootin can do. >> I know it can take an iso of a (selected) linux distro and install it >> onto a >> USB stick with the correct boot loaders etc so the distro can be booted >> directly from the usb stick. >> But..it also has a "frugal" HDD install mode. I read today that someone >> says >> they have has used it to install Linux Mint * to a Windows XP (ntfs) >> partition. I tried to do this but can't get it to boot although I see the >> Mint squashfs file. I have also modified grub (it uses grub4dos) to add a >> stanza for Mint. But no joy. It starts to boot but then stops saying >> can't >> find init. >> >> I would ask the original poster what he did but he is very new and >> confused >> and says he doesn't know how he did it. Frankly I am unsure if he really >> has >> installed to the windows partition or another one. >> >> I don't want to waste any more time if this is undo-able but if it's >> possible it seems very interesting. >> Any inputs welcome > > I recently used Unetbootin on Debian unstable to install Mint 8 on a USB > stick (FAT16). I'd previously tried to use usbcreator on Ubunto 9.10, > but the stick failed to boot. I downloaded a new ISO in case mine was > corrupted, but that wouldn't even boot from CD, but putting that same > image on a USB stick with unetbootin was successful! > > I wonder if your friend really installed it to a FAT partition rather > than NTFS. It looks like you can get syslinux to boot from NTFS though. > Have a look at the sdi.txt file that comes with it > (/usr/share/doc/syslinux-common/sdi.txt.gz on Debian-based systems). > Hi Tony, Thanks for your input. As I said it's an install to a HDD rather than a USB stick that I'm intersted in. It' s not a friend but someone on a forum who seems to be saying he installed Mint to the same partition as Windows using Unetbootin. But I have no way to check it is correct. Hopefully someone will come along who has done it or similar. Cheers Dave
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