So, does the USB Disk Creator actually work at all?

[swfiua at gmail.com]

I had trouble a while back with the disk creator, an alternative is
unetbootlin.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Brian Burger <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:

> Past 0300 Friday night/Saturday morning here in BC, and I'm still trying
> to get Ubuntu 12.10's USB Disk Creator to actually, you know, create a damn
> USB disk. On Sunday I'm off for a two-week work assignment in Fort McMurray
> with a Win7 netbook a friend has been kind enough to loan me, given that
> taking my usual Ubuntu desktop computer is kind of impractical. I'd rather
> not be stuck in someone else's Win7 install, though, so I fired up the USB
> Disk Creator to make a persistant Live USB key.
>
> I've tried three different USB keys (one 2GB, two different 4GB), both
> FAT32 & FAT16 formatting, and re-downloaded the ISO twice (one straight
> download, one by torrent for the extra error-checking capability of the
> torrent protocol) and for the first few failures it threw an error message
> up and then fell over gracelessly; now it just seems to fall over
> gracelessly.
>
> I've tried at least eight attempts, not one of which has resulted in a
> bootable USB key. The ISO is fine, the USB keys are known to work and one
> of them is brand-new, bought just this Friday afternoon.
>
> I pick up the loaner netbook sometime Saturday and fly out Sunday
> midday... anyone got any ideas or had any luck with actually getting a
> usable LiveUSB in 12.10? I'm not much looking forward to being stuck with
> Win7 and stuck in Fort Mac at the same time...
>
> Brian
>
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