![]() In a way, netbooks were ahead of their time, not only small and light, they came without a CD/DVD optical drive which was how most Linux distributions were installed at that time. I first used UNetbootin in December 2010 to install Lubuntu 10.10 on a netbook, one of those mini-sized laptops that were popular back then. Kovacs and released under a GPL version 2 (or later) free software license. UNetbootin, short for “Universal Netboot Installer”, has been around for a while its first release was in April 2007. These days, lots of free software applications designed to write ISOs to USBs are available, including BalenaEtcher, Ventoy, and MultibootUSB, but I decided to try an old favorite, UNetbootin. It sort of worked, as it wrote Ubuntu Unity 20.10 to the stick, but it would not boot. My first attempt at a workaround was to use “dd” from the command-line. Startup Disk Creator would not accept the ISO file for writing. When I did my previous review of Ubuntu Unity 20.04 LTS, Startup Disk Creator was able to write that distribution, but I ran into an impasse with Ubuntu Unity 20.10. ![]() Startup Disk Creator comes already installed on all the Ubuntu flavors, it is easy to use and generally works fine on ISOs for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu. ![]() Normally, I use Ubuntu’s Startup Disk Creator to write the ISO to the USB.
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