[xubuntu-users] making DBAN thumb drives with unetbootin

[kiyotaka at nemotos.net]

Hi,

Unetbootin has several bugs, and someone posts a workaround for making DBAN
thumbdrive with unetbootin.
http://alexpounds.com/blog/2012/07/18/workarounds-for-unetbootin-bugs

If you don't have to stick to Unetbootin, you might get better results with
Ubuntu's default usb-creator (usb-creator-gtk)

Hope this helps,

Kiyotaka


2016-06-22 20:38 GMT+09:00 JMZ <florentior at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Okay, OT but I've been having problems using unetbootin to make dban thumb
> drives.  I'd use a CD (much easier to make), but I need to wipe a sans-CD
> drive netbook.  My external disc drive conked out a while back, so I'm out
> of luck :-(
>
> Generally, I format my thumb drives to fat32, simply because most are used
> on a windows machine eventually.  Unetbootin won't create complete linux
> bootup files on a fat32 thumb drive, resulting in an unbootable drive
> (though it will transfer the dban iso file). Formatting the thumb drive to
> ext4 does not help.
>
> Am I missing a step in the unetbootin process?  Better yet, is there
> another way to create a bootable dban thumb drive without using unetbootin?
>
> Thanks,
> Jordan
>
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