Unetbootin -- Install boot Other Linux from USB

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Unetbootin -- Install boot Other Linux from USB

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Well, we Puppy fans are a curious lot -- double entendre intended. And the forum even provides a place to discuss our infidelities. So how do you manage to setup your clandestine affair?

You can call on unetbootin. It's discussed here, viewtopic.php?p=6801#p6801. Just follow the links. Using it under Puppy (Bionicpup64 to be specific) revealed a couple of thing regarding the unetbootin.bin downloaded.
(1) I kind-a recalled Unetbootin didn't provide a routine for formatting the USB-Key. So, before plugging it in, gparted formatted it as fat32. Running it also didn't suggest any opportunity to format.
(2) That Unetbootin also required the USB-Key be mounted came as a surprise.
(3) mtools was a simple one-deb download via PPM. Installed and x-restarted. Until mtools was installed Unetbootin could not see the USB port.
(4) The ISO selection routine didn't work. Only the files/folders in /root were listed and there appeared to be no way to 'escape' from there. So I created a 'secret passage' :roll: --a symlink to the folder where the ISO I wanted to use was located. I guess I should have anticipated this. Most distros think that a 'User's place is in his/her Home'. And they don't want you rooting-around. Now, with my secret passage I can sneak out of my Home and cat-around without puritanical Unetbootin being anyway the wiser. :lol:

My first 'conquest': LinuxMint 20. ;)
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Re: Unetbootin -- Install boot Other Linux from USB

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(4) The ISO selection routine didn't work. Only the files/folders in /root were listed and there appeared to be no way to 'escape' from there.
Above the /root is the word computer.
Click on computer and in right side it shows /
Double click on /
The complete filesystem comes up
Navigate any place you want to.
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The things you do not tell us, are usually the clue to fixing the problem.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be older.
This is not what I expected :o

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