When I use Unetbootin to put a Linux ISO on a USB drive, it proceeds quite quickly until it gets to filesystem.squashfs, which takes longer to process than absolutely everything else combined. Is this writing a new filesystem to the USB, or is it copying some huge filesystem-dependent file? If so, is there a way to only do it once in the event that I will be trying many distros and want to speed this step up?

I followed these steps, but can't get Linux to boot from USB on my HP Pavilion dv7 (Radeon HD 6490M). I was told to disable Secure Boot, but that option isn't even in my BIOS menu. 1. BIOS on Laptop - changed Boot Order to this: 1. USB Diskette on Key/USB Hard Disc 2. USB CD/ROM ROM Drive 3. USB Floppy 4. Notebook Hard Drive 2. UNetBootIn wrote the Linux Mint ISO to these drives: 1. A 16 GB USB stick 2. A 60 GB portable HDD 3. Reboot laptop: 1. With the USB stick inserted, it just boots Windows 2. With the portable HDD it says no OS is found on the drive What am I doing wrong?

I was trying to dual boot Linux Mint Cinnamon with my Windows 10 PC. I used Unetbootin to install linux mint cinnamon iso file. I used the hard drive type installation in which the only hard drive in the option was C: drive. The Unetbootin installer completed successfully. Now I want to remove every of those linux mint files from C: drive. I have tried System Restore twice. I also get a message saying system restore was successful but still my Linux files are not removed at all. I have tried manually deleting using Date modified and Date created but wasn't very successful using that. PS: Would reset my PC work? would it remove Linux files from my C: ? Please Help. Thank you. **Update:** While trying to install Linux through USB, somehow my windows file got effected. My PC was not booting to the desktop screen. It always came to a blue screen that said > Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you.The image is included along with an error image that I also saw in my PC. This happened **every single time** I restarted it. I know that only my C drive was effected because I booted using a Linux OS from a USB and my rest of the files were fine. After 3 hours of panicking and trying out reset my pc (which failed), system restore (which was successful but still couldn't boot my pc), some scans from cmd terminal (which gave msg - Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.), I resigned myself that I would have to take it up to a technician. As a last ditch effort, I tried System Restore at a later date than my previous restore points. It WORKED!! I don't know why that did and the other didn't (even though I had NOT installed linux in any of the restore points) but I was crazy in relief! My windows is back to normal. I am very grateful for it. Thank you everyone for your help.

when I try to open Unetbootin after installation, I get that in small window :

mlabelin found. Required for Arch Linux install mode.
Installation of the "mtools" package or the equivalent of your distribution

I don't see an option to boot from my flash drive in advanced startup. I tried to download the bootable file from UNetbootin. I selected the distribution option and selected Debian and Stable_NetInstall. Once it's loaded onto my flashdrive I enter advanced startup and I only see the option to start windows 10. Also, I already partitioned my hard drive.

I had trouble installing DBan, (see other thread) on my Mac, I was wondering if there is a Linux distro I can install to destroy all of the data on a laptop (I've been given it on the condition I remove data), as UNetbootin seems to work better with Linux distros.

I used Unetbootin to make a bootable USB. The installing process consists of 4 step, one of them is "Installing Bootloader". I wonder which Bootloader Unetbootin has used because I want to try to install it in manual by myself on my usb?

I installed Ubuntu on my USB stick and everything works as expected on my main PC, but when I connect the USB stick to my laptop and try to boot it gets stuck in a boot-loop at the loading screen. Is possible to make an Ubuntu thumb drive work properly on different computers?

I have a Dell XPS 13 (9343) and I would like to try Fedora 25 from live USB. I prepared the USB drive using unetbootbin on Ubuntu using this file: Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25-1.3.iso (if I prepare the drive with Disks it is not recognized as UEFI bootable). I rebooted, selected the USB drive to boot from (UEFI secure), and I got the Fedora boot menu. I edited the grub params and removed the quiet flag to see what was going on. I got the following screen (I got the last message when I removed the pendrive - so the kernel was not totally dead!). The only thing I can do at this point is turn off the computer. What is wrong and how do I fix it? I'm surprised because Ubuntu works without hiccups and Fedora 25 on the XPS 13 is reported to be working fine by other users. PS. In the normal Ubuntu boot, the next message after the matching clocksource line in dmesg comes from systemd: [ 3.207740] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc [ 8.053957] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 8.732566] systemd: systemd 229 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN) [ 8.732673] systemd: Detected architecture x86-64.

after creating a live usb with kali linux, both "dd" command and "unetbootin", the USB does not boot in my other computer in which i have kali linux installed as well. When I select the USB from the boot menu and load it, it stays stuck in a black screen with a little underscore blinking, i've looked everywhere in goolgle, blakcmoreops, and well it seems that no one have any answers. i have previously tried something in where some files from my computer (running kali) in the boot folder had to be copied to the root of the usb in order to make it boot and it actually worked but i totally forgot how it was done or what files had to be replaced.

I want to test several linux versions. Is there any database that is constantly being updated where I can find this list of iso? I thought about mining in the source code of an iso USB installer if no official list of utility exists (such as unetbootin)

I want to make a Bootable USB, in order to run some code for a RTOS. I have created the .elf file and I don't know how to make a bootable USB from it. I have tried UNetBootin, selecting Floppy but it never boots. Any help? Thanks.

I screwed up big time, I have installed linux mint live disk on my flash drive via unetboot on an virtualised linux mint of another computer. When I transferred the usb drive to my main computer, it DOESN'T show up the unetboot selection screen but instead, always shows grub2 and it's boot options only into my main OS.(which doesn't work at the moment, see my other question ) Before that, I have installed grub2 on the almost everything including the usb drive for some reason via boot repair, I am sure that is what causes this problem, not sure why I did it. It doesn't matter if I format and install the OS on my usb drive, the incorrect grub2 menu always appears. Could someone help me?

I am trying to revive an old computer of mine. It is a Dell Inspiron 9300 running Windows XP. I am using unetbootin with Grub to install Lubuntu, however when I try to install after restarting the computer I receive an error message along the lines of this: casper vmlinuz not found error 15 Is this install requiring an internet connection? I am not sure this laptop can connect to the internet in the bios, I also tried installing with an ethernet cable connected an was still unsuccessful.