Creating a Linux Mint 12 bootable USB from Linux Mint 11?

Question

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Stuck with the problem of creating a bootable flash drive.
If I do it using the standard utility - Startup disk creator - everything is recorded, but when the laptop is rebooted, it does not react to the USB flash drive.
I tried to do everything manually through “sudo fdisk / dev / sdc” - I changed a lot of parameters, I tried both ntfs and fat32 - nothing happens.
Rummaged in Google - everything is simple for everyone and everything works out. I used to record a flash drive from Windows - everything worked out with a bang and there were no problems.
Perhaps someone solved a similar problem, help.
Just in case: laptop HP 6730s, system - Linux Mint 11 32bit

Answer 1

Under Windows I have always used Unetbootin . The site has a version for Linux, try it, it should work.

Answer 2

Perhaps (perhaps) the problem lies deeper than just a crooked flash drive. I had a situation - I put Linux Mint 11 in a dual-boot with Windows. After that, Windows had to be demolished, which I did through GParted under Mint.
But bad luck - the laptop stopped responding to any bootable media. If earlier the disk with Windows cheerfully gave out "Press any key to start installation ...", now Mint immediately began to load.
Worse, when I was able to install Windows (Vista) with the help of one of the LiveCDs, Mint still loaded on reboot. I rebuilt and reset the GRUB settings several times - it did not help.
Apparently, mint installed his bootloader somewhere completely wrong, which led to such a deplorable result.
To be honest, I don't remember how it all ended. Either one of the distributions was installed and started, and through it I formatted the rest of the disk. Either I was able to start the boot disk with 7 and restored the boot sector through the recovery console (as it is easy to google according to Win7 to restore the bootloader).
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I'm not saying that you have the same situation. Just sharing a bad experience. Anything can happen, and this option cannot be discarded either.

Answer 3

Haven't tried that?
sudo dd if=/path/to/iso/mint.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M;sync

Answer 4

Try updating syslinux to the latest version. A bootable flash drive is created using this package, and it has problems with the compatibility of configs of different versions. Ubuntu used to have something similar.