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Startup Disk Creator on Ubuntu 14.04
Developer(s) Evan Dandrea
Stable release
0.3.13 / 4 March 2022; 2 years ago (2022-03-04)
Written in Python
Operating system Ubuntu, Windows
Type Live USB creator
License GNU GPL v3

Startup Disk Creator (USB-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image. The tool is included by default in all releases after Ubuntu 8.04, and can be installed on Ubuntu 8.04. A KDE frontend was released for Ubuntu 8.10, and is currently included by default in Kubuntu installations. The KDE and Ubuntu frontend go under the names "usb-creator-kde" and "usb-creator-gtk", respectively.

Features

  • Install bootloader to USB device

Installation

To install in Ubuntu via apt, use the following commands in the terminal:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install usb-creator-gtk

Future development

The tool is available for Ubuntu (GNOME, from 11.04 up to 17.04 also their own called Unity) or Kubuntu (KDE) and also for Windows starting in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" but accessible only by inserting the Live CD or DVD into a CD-ROM/DVD-RW drive with Windows running.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Creador de discos de arranque para niños

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