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Startup Disk Creator

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Developer(s)
  
Evan Dandrea

Operating system
  
Ubuntu, Windows

License
  
GNU GPL v3

Written in
  
Python

Type
  
Live USB creator

Startup Disk Creator

Stable release
  
0.3.3 / 26 July 2016; 7 months ago (2016-07-26)

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. To run the current version on Ubuntu or other distributions, enter either "usb-creator-gtk" or "usb-creator-kde" at the command line.

Contents

Features

  • Install bootloader to USB device
  • Future development

    The tool is available for Ubuntu (GNOME [Since 11.04 also their own called Unity]) or Kubuntu (KDE) and also for Windows starting in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" but only accessible by inserting the Live CD into a CD-ROM drive with Windows running.

    References

    Startup Disk Creator Wikipedia