What have ou tried when fixing your old install on sda2.
That should be recoverable quite easily.
You need to mount the /dev from your currently running Ubuntu to the
mounted partition.
For example
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
Assuming that sda2 is mounted to /mnt
Repeat that for sys and proc
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
Then change the root file system using the chroot command
chroot /mnt
Now your computer thinks you are actually using sda2 instead of your USB.
If you want to install your boot loaded from sda2 to your hard drive
type this:
grub-install /dev/sda
update-grub
thene xit the chroot
exit
Good luck.
On 07/08/16 07:24, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> So how do I tell it where to write the image of the USB drive?
> There are no pull-down menus and the applications key does nothing.
>
> Thanks.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Milton" <mil...@tomaatnet.nl>
> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>;
> <ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 2:33 PM
> Subject: Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image
>
>
> Indeed, the entire usb-drive is selected.
> Milton
>
> Op 06-08-16 om 21:17 schreef Glenn / Lenny:
>> Hi Milton,
>> With that command, it brings up the program, and I can select the USB
>> drive
>> in question, but the only options are other..., which seems to be for
>> adding
>> more file types, and the other option is to close.
>> I don't find an option for file name to write to, or a browse to where I
>> want to put it.
>> Thanks.
>> Glenn
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Milton" <mil...@tomaatnet.nl>
>> To: "Glenn / Lenny" <ger...@cableone.net>;
>> <ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 1:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: {Spam?} making an ISO image
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe this will be of help:
>> in Ubuntu 16.04 I type in a terminal after the flash drive is inserted:
>> usb-creator-gtk
>>
>> Milton
>>
>> Op 06-08-16 om 19:01 schreef Glenn / Lenny:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have been trying several different programs including the DD command,
>>> and either the program seems inaccessible with Orca, or I was not able
>>> to place my image to be, into another drive.
>>> I am running Ubuntu from a live version on an 8GB card.
>>> I have a bootable USB 16GB thumb drive that I want to make into an ISO
>>> image on /dev/sda2.
>>> /dev/sda2 is where my old Ubuntu lives, and I cannot boot to, as grub
>>> got messed up, and I just fixed the MBR so I could at least boot into
>>> Windows on that system.
>>> On a side note, I tried fixing GRUB with no luck, so I will just get a
>>> larger drive and reinstall everything, and copy out files from that
>>> drive when I replace it.
>>> In the meantime, if I do get GRUB working again, this making an ISO
>>> image would be easier, because in one program I was using, it would only
>>> allow me to make an ISO of the USB drive into a directory of this live
>>> boot disk, which is only 8GB.
>>> The boot disk I am wanting to make a copy of is /dev/sdb
>>> So with DD, I tried:
>>> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda2/home/Downloads
>>> And I even tried it directly into /dev/sda2
>>> and I tried all commands with giving the ISO a file name at the end,
>>> like /dev/sda2/usb-image.iso
>>> I tried it with acetoneiso and it gave me the same errors as DD did.
>>> I tried k3b and genisoimage, and a couple others.
>>> I would even write it to a folder on /sda1 if possible, which is an NTFS
>>> partition.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any ideas.
>>> Glenn
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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