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Only a single installation can be written on each USB stick, though, as it does not support multiple installations.
#WRITE UBUNTU ISO TO USB MAC UNETBOOTIN INSTALL#
UNetbootin can be used to install a large number of Linux and BSD distributions, including rescue disks too. Back then, the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator couldn’t write Lubuntu (it can today), so UNetbootin was the answer and it did the job perfectly. In a way, netbooks were ahead of their time, not only small and light, they came without a CD/DVD optical drive which was how most Linux distributions were installed at that time. I first used UNetbootin in December 2010 to install Lubuntu 10.10 on a netbook, one of those mini-sized laptops that were popular back then.
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Kovacs and released under a GPL version 2 (or later) free software license. UNetbootin, short for “Universal Netboot Installer”, has been around for a while its first release was in April 2007. These days, lots of free software applications designed to write ISOs to USBs are available, including BalenaEtcher, Ventoy, and MultibootUSB, but I decided to try an old favorite, UNetbootin. It sort of worked, as it wrote Ubuntu Unity 20.10 to the stick, but it would not boot. My first attempt at a workaround was to use “dd” from the command-line. Startup Disk Creator would not accept the ISO file for writing. When I did my previous review of Ubuntu Unity 20.04 LTS, Startup Disk Creator was able to write that distribution, but I ran into an impasse with Ubuntu Unity 20.10.
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Startup Disk Creator comes already installed on all the Ubuntu flavors, it is easy to use and generally works fine on ISOs for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu. Normally, I use Ubuntu’s Startup Disk Creator to write the ISO to the USB.