cannot install unetbootin

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:30:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 07:49 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> If I get a new PC (which probably comes with Windows 10 or 11) can I then
>> replace the drive and install Ubuntu on the brand new empty drive?
>
>Hi,
>
>I am not aware that we have reached a point where access to desktop PCs
>is no longer possible without jailbreaking. At least the regular Windows
>10 and Windows 11 versions that I have installed in VMs on my computer
>could easily be removed from a PC, even when they are installed on bare
>metal.

My current main server started out on an old Asus desktop minitower I inherited
from my mother and that was Ok for Ubuntu 16.04 back in 2017.
It was upgraded to 18.04 and then a couple of years ago I got tired of its
slowness and got myself a Lenovo Ideacentre 3 minitower which came with Windows
10.

So I moved the old system to the new PC by using a Ventoy standalone GParted to
copy the Ubuntu partitions from the old system drive to the new PC on 2 new
partitions. So it has Windows too now.
I did not believe it would transfer like this but it did!
It has also been release-upgraded to 20.04 later and that is where I am now.

However, it seems to not be possible to update the PC f/w except by booting into
*Windows* in a very special way (I have it documented somewhere) in order to
reach the f/w update functions..

So given that experience I am asking if this is a general problem, that (some?)
hardware manufacturers only have f/w update functions that work with Windows?

>Around a year ago I still build a new 13th Gen Intel Core based PC
>myself. IIRC everything worked OOTB with a default *buntu kernel, just
>for Arch Linux I build the RTL8125 module with dkms.

I too built my own PC:s from parts bought in electronics shops back in the
1990:es for about 10 years, but these became bulky compared to what could be
bought ready-made at not too big extra cost too, so I have not done that for a
whiile...

>As long as not all your fingers are thumbs, it never really makes sense
>to buy a ready-made PC.

I have developed electronics and computerized systems since 1972 so I don't feel
as someone lost in a laboratory/test room..

But it is hard to put together a small package server box like the ones you can
buy ready-made nowadays..


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden