I was surprised when I went to the bug page, and found that the package had not been configured for bug reports yet. Even if I was going to fix it, I wanted to ensure that the issue was being tracked, and to see if anyone else had submitted a bug on the topic already. My first thought was to create a bug on the issue. Unless I missed something, there is no easy search within a project, the navigation is antiquated, and the look and feels leaves a bit to be desired. Having used multiple systems over the years, launchpad felt like a step back in time. The code is hosted on LaunchPad which uses Bazaar as its version control system. This was because I wanted to try out the latest Fedora, and had not bothered to pull down another ISO.įinding the source code for the USB Creator took a bit longer than planned. Let me add a quick note and say, I had not tried a Debian based ISO on the application. It just sits there and does nothing.Īt this point, I could have just used dd and been done with it, but I wanted to find out what was going on with the application, and why it was not working. It turns out that if you are not using a Debian based distro, then the application will fail silently.

It does mention using an Ubuntu ISO image, but what should work for one, should work for most any ISO. This page walks through using the Startup Disk Creator. Ubuntu has a page dedicated to the topic. That led me down the rabbit hole that you see here. Normally I would use dd, but Ubuntu has a tool, and I thought sure, let’s try this gui tool. I had Ubuntu installed, and I wanted to give Fedora a try (it has been a while), so I just needed to create a bootable USB stick.

Well, Ubuntu was finally getting rid of the Unity desktop, so the spin off that I had been using was no longer going to be updated. I had been running Ubuntu GNOME, a flavor of Ubuntu that was focused on a mostly vanilla install of Gnome on top of Ubuntu. Let me start with the scenario that led me into issues with the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator. Issues with Ubuntu’s Startup Disk Creator for non-debian ISOs

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