Why does the startup disk creator suck so bad?

[Liam Proven]

On 15 September 2013 16:43, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, I love, love, love Ubuntu but holy crow the Startup Disk
> Creator has been buggy as hell for quite a few releases now.  I've
> used it on numerous computers and releases - even VMs - and it always
> requires a half dozen executions to format the USB drive before you
> can install it.
>
> What's up with that?   I can't imagine it is something I'm doing wrong
> but you never know.    Could it be?

I normally use UNetBootIn myself, but I've used the SDC a few times
and it worked fine for me. Typically in this sort of situation, I
format the thumbdrive myself, by hand, first, though...


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