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Is Installing Ubuntu to a Flash Drive from Windows follow different steps for each version?

@AbhishekBhatia different versions of Ubuntu or different versions of Windows?

@Zacharee1 ubuntu

No, that's a pretty good explanation.

@AbhishekBhatia shouldn't be, but you can't do it from Windows. You actually have to make an installer, either on a different flash drive or on a CD, and use that to install to the flash drive

@AbhishekBhatia or do you mean make a USB installer?

@Zacharee1 yeah I mean a USB installer.

@AbhishekBhatia oh, just use Rufus and use it to burn the Ubuntu ISO to a flash drive

@AbhishekBhatia Get yourself unetbootin . It's a software for creating bootable usb installers

I was using Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.2 .

@Serg That thing never worked for me. Rufus is a lot better

@AbhishekBhatia follow the link I gave you

I facing a weird issue with it->http://askubuntu.com/questions/705201/install-ubuntu-9-10-to-a-flash-drive-f‌​rom-windows

Hang on, are you trying to out an actual installation of Ubuntu on the drive, or just make the drive a bootable installer?

(to re-confirm)

@AbhishekBhatia

make the drive a bootable installer.

@ParanoidPanda look up

Because?

@AbhishekBhatia Your title is very misleading

@AbhishekBhatia it's technically off-topic as 9.10 is no longer supported

For some reason, we don't allow questions about unsupported releases

@AbhishekBhatia But you can just Use Rufus.

Why do you want to use 9.10 anyway?

That too, sort of

@ParanoidPanda I've seen people ask questions about how to make an Ubuntu installer from Windows, and they've never been closed

I guess since there's a problem, it is more Windows-related

Long story short-> I have to a write driver for some hardware. The previous driver was written for ubuntu 9.10. I want to use wireshack to get details how data is passed and then write the driver.

@Zacharee1 Unetbootin has been working perfectly for me - I've created Ubuntu and PuppyLinux USBs with it

@Serg ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I've never had problems with Rufus, so I always recommend it

@Zacharee1 For more info: superuser.com/questions/1000040/… superuser.com/questions/1000819/read-data-from-com-port

@Zacharee1 Lol . . . well I recommend unetbootin for the same reasons XD

@AbhishekBhatia OK, well delete your question, since it's kind of off-topic, and just use Rufus.

Trying rufus right now will update you guys. :)

@Serg Rufus is also really easy to use

@Zacharee1 there is a canonical answer on how to create the installers from windows

@Serg Yeah, and I hate it

@Zacharee1 <.< why ?

Please let me check to be sure. I will delete immediately after that.

@Serg UNETBootin is a little confusing, and whenever I try to make an installer from it, it's never bootable

@AbhishekBhatia Well, it's definitely going to be closed, whether you delete it or not

unetbootin confusing? o_O

Deleted :)

@Zacharee1 -____- I used unetbootin when i was a complete n00b and STILL managed to make everything bootable. You probably were doing something wrong. RTFM man

@Serg @Seth idk, it just never worked for me

Question: you have wireless device that works on ubuntu 9.10 but not after that. How do you go writing a driver for it.

I know Rufus works on multiple versions of Windows and multiple architectures (plus it has a portable version), so I always recommend it

Personal preferences , that's all - use what works . I totally understand you @Zacharee1

Please refer: superuser.com/questions/1000040/… for details on device.

I am haunted by this problem since few weeks.

@ParanoidPanda it's just a bootable installer (title was misleading)

@ParanoidPanda they want to update a driver for 9.10 to the latest

No support now for the device.

To eat or not to eat, that is the question . . . . :/

@Serg what?

Yesterday my father basically told me to stop eating his stuff

He buys microwavable sandwiches. So he got pissed because the sandwiches were gone in one week, because i ate them all

@ParanoidPanda He needs it to see how the driver works

Nah

15.10 is amazing

Ze best

@ParanoidPanda update it

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

@ParanoidPanda get yourself USB dongle with RTL8192 chipset. It always works in any ubuntu version

@ParanoidPanda ^

@ParanoidPanda ^^

@ParanoidPanda ^^^

:P

rfkill?

@ParanoidPanda you pandas are freakin creepy in fog

yeesh

O_O

@Serg s/fog/smog/

@Seth well, yes . . . That doesn't change the fact those pandas are creepy

no, it doesn't :/

Just installed MATE in ubuntu

i am gonna apt-get purge mate

O_O

yeah

MATE = Gnome Classic

Ubuntu mate pretty much can be simulated with gnome-panel , sudo apt-get gnome-panel

Also my eyes were because I am 3 upvotes away from 20k

When did i get there ?

19,978 right now

Speaking of color schemes...

I would definitely hire someone to design my website who thought bright green on white looked good...

:)

hahahahaha

@seth are you there ?

@RomainClair yes I am.

Sorry I didn't see the notification earlier, I didn't hear the sound.

rats, looks like I missed him.

Hi !

@NathanOsman you might know. Is there any clever trick to get a media player to tell you what file it's currently playing? I am hoping there might be some nifty D-bus solution or something.

Sure is.

I even have a Python script somewhere that did that...

Let me see if I can find it...

@terdon here's the script: github.com/nathan-osman/Multimedia-Application-Remote-Control/…

Cool, thanks. Do you want some easy U&L rep?

If so, mosey on down to this:

It should work with anything that implements org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.

Though to be fair, the script needs to know in advance which media player it is retrieving data for.

(The D-Bus path to the media player is hardcoded in.)

@NathanOsman think you could lend a hand here? askubuntu.com/q/703967/44179

this is starting to get beyond my debugging skills..

more there --^

@NathanOsman Yes, I saw that but it should be easy enough to get some more in there.

Presumably, there is some call that will print what is playing. I'll pass this on to the OP.

I cannot for the life of me reproduce or fix his problem. Really weird.

as far as I can tell everything involved on our two systems is identical..

any smart people?

@daBoss No. There was one a few minutes ago but she left.

Oh well then I might as well ask my wife who knows nothing about Ubuntu

@daBoss what's up?

Or you could try asking here without the preamble. That might work too :P

@NathanOsman trying to install owncloud but having some problems with Mysql

*sigh* I just managed to break my Minecraft server

@HeatherBrown I wanted to make a new server (I installed a graphical server wrapper), but it was failing. When I asked on the wrapper's community site, the developer showed me that I had the front-end of one version, while I had the back-end of an older version (messed up upgrade). I tried to revert to my backup, but it gave me an internal server error....

VTC EOL

So I tried to make a new installation and copy the config directory through the terminal, but forgot a trailing slash and ended up deleting it

Since the wrapper is web-based and I have it running on port 8080, a default installation has no styling

I have to go through HTML files manually and reset the URL, as there's no support for ports other than 80

Oy vey

@HeatherBrown Didn't catch her name. She dropped by, illuminated us briefly with the blinding light of her intellect then breezed away, leaving us all feeling a little empty and very stupid.

:P

@daBoss As a stupid person, I take offense :p

OK

@HeatherBrown What do you mean "copy at boot time"? You'd need to copy the stuff yourself first.

:)

I just discovered something very evil.

That would be stupider, not smarter. How can it know whether you actually want everything copied?

^--- copy and paste that into a terminal

And why would you want to wait until the copy operation finishes before booting?

BUT DO NOT PRESS RETURN.

There's a subtle trick in there.

@NathanOsman You're going to do a terdon...

Did you try it?

Neat trick, eh? :P

Copy and paste it into a text file and inspect it with a hex editor

Notice anything amiss? :P

Notice the 08 characters after the /tmp.

And what is ASCII character 08?

@NathanOsman Tricky tricky!!

:)

So if you ever copy-and-paste commands (never do this with commands you don't understand), watch and see what gets pasted :P

@HeatherBrown

@NathanOsman Also, don't copy the next line down either, as pasting it can interpret that as a CR.

The good news is that contrary to popular belief, sudo rm -rf / is not actually a dangerous command.

@terdon ?