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UNetbootin

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Original author(s)
  
Geza Kovacs

Written in
  
C++ (Qt 4.0)

Development status
  
Active

UNetbootin

Initial release
  
April 2007; 9 years ago (2007-04)

Stable release
  
Release 625 / May 16, 2016; 10 months ago (2016-05-16)

Operating system
  
Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux

UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a cross-platform utility that can create live USB systems and can load a variety of system utilities or install various Linux distributions and other operating systems without a CD.

Contents

USB install

This installation mode creates bootable USB flash drives and bootable USB Hard Disk Drives; it is a Live USB creator.

  • Cross-platform (available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X)
  • Non-destructive install (does not format the device) using Syslinux.
  • Supports mainstream Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, Gentoo, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Mandriva, MEPIS, Slackware as well as FreeDOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
  • Can load a variety of system utilities, such as Ophcrack, BackTrack.
  • Other operating systems can be loaded via pre-downloaded ISO image or floppy/hard drive disk image files.
  • Automatically detects all removable devices.
  • Supports LiveUSB persistence (preserving files across reboots; this feature is for Ubuntu only)

    • Multiple installs on the same device are not supported.

    Hard drive install

    This installation mode performs a network installation or "frugal install" without a CD, similar to that performed by the Win32-Loader.

    UNetbootin's distinguishing features are its support for a great variety of Linux distributions, its portability, its ability to load custom disk image (including ISO image) files, and its support for both Windows and Linux. Unlike Wubi, and similar to the Win32-Loader, when installing to hard disk, UNetbootin installs to a partition, not a disk image, thus creating a dual-boot setup between Linux and Windows.

    References

    UNetbootin Wikipedia
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