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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

... and a second short comment:

Today I needed several attempts including logout/login to manage to use
usb-creator-gtk in Lubuntu Saucy i386 to create a persistent Lubuntu
Saucy amd64 pendrive :-(

But finally I succeeded and the persistent drive works :-)

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-10-15 08:34, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Just a short comment:
> 
> I tested the usb-creator-gtk in Saucy (yesterday's version) now. I had
> to use it twice (both times wiping with 'Erase disk') to succeed. The
> first time it crashed early, the second time it created a good boot
> drive (from the Lubuntu Saucy 32-bit desktop iso) and then crashed with
> segmentation fault.
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
> On 2013-10-15 06:21, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> See these links for making USB boot drives
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073
>>
>> And about usb-creator-gtk in Saucy: it is buggy, but this way I succeed
>> to make *persistent live* drives with usb-creator-gtk in Lubuntu Saucy.
>>
>> Let it wipe whatever is on the USB pendrive and then create a partition
>> and file system: Click on 'Erase disk'!
>>
>> Alternatives are to install Kubuntu's version usb-creator-kde or
>> Unetbootin (as well as resorting to the version 12.04 LTS).
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>> On 2013-10-14 22:47, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>> The USB installers have been pretty much broken all cycle. Last I heard
>>> was to use dd. Nothing will now get fixed before release. If people have
>>> a decent set of instructions using *any* usb installer to use 13.04 to
>>> install 13.10, please put them onto the wiki; or even in a text file
>>> with step by step explanation!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Phill.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 October 2013 21:38, JM <meets@xxxxxx <mailto:meets@xxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:04:05 +0200
>>>     Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>     > On 2013-10-14 01:21, JM wrote:
>>>     > > Hi,
>>>     > >
>>>     > > The test consists in booting to Lubuntu Saucy final (installed
>>>     on hard drive), and
>>>     > > consists in installing to USB in order to install from there as
>>>     if it were an install
>>>     > > from cdrom.
>>>     (...)
>>>     > > It looks like after re-installing USB Creator GTK and starting
>>>     it from console I have
>>>     > > finished installing the latest ISO AND bootloader.This time I
>>>     have had the window with
>>>     > > the success message in it. However at reboot the bootloader is
>>>     not found.
>>>     > >
>>>     > > Therefore this time I'll do it from within an Ubuntu 12.04.
>>>     (...)
>>>
>>>
>>>     > Hi Mélodie,
>>>     >
>>>     > usb-creator-gtk is buggy, but this way I succeed to make persistent
>>>     > drives with it in Lubuntu Saucy:
>>>     >
>>>     > Let it wipe whatever is on the USB pendrive and then create a
>>>     partition
>>>     > and file system: Click on 'Erase disk'!
>>>     >
>>>     > Alternatives are kubuntu's version usb-creator-kde or unetbootin (as
>>>     > well as resorting to the version 12.04 LTS).
>>>     >
>>>     > Let us know how it works :-)
>>>     >
>>>     > Best regards
>>>     > Nio
>>>
>>>
>>>     Hi Nio,
>>>
>>>     It has worked fine in my Ubuntu Openbox 12.04.3 install. The USB
>>>     Creator GTK works ok,
>>>     (at least as long as I don't ask it to erase the drive, as far as I
>>>     remember, and I use
>>>     Gparted for this task).
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Mélodie