On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Phil Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've tried Unetbootin and the link provided earlier
> http://lifehacker.com/245087/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-a-flash-drive,
> without any success so far.
>
> With Unetbootin, I downloaded it to my desktop and was unable to get it to
> do anything. I'd click on it and nothing would happen. I tried to open it
> with Archive Manager and got: Could not open "unetbootin-linux-344" Archive
> type not supported. I suppose this is because it is a "bin" file, but I
> don't know enough about "bin".
unetbootin-linux-344 is an executable file, not any kind of archive.
It must be run with root privilege.
This is probably a job for command-line rather than GUI. I can coach
you through the command-line procedure.
Open a terminal window.
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ ls -l unetbootin* # you should get something like this, with of course
# a different user name and release number.
-rwxrwxr-x 1 cdl cdl 3801972 May 17 21:06 unetbootin-linux-323
# if it is not executable (rwxrwxr-x) make it so
$ chmod +x unetbootin*
# now run the program as root
$ sudo ./unetbootin*
# you will be asked for your password
# and unetbootin will do its thing.
carl
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