[SOLVED] Startup Disk situation - "Installation failed"

[ivotkl]

Hello. I'm trying to make a bootable Raspbian USB stick just to test the software on a regular non-Pi box. I just wanted to check if there's anything I'm doing wrong.

OS disk image has img extension and I am able to open it with Startup Disk Creator. File was originally a md5-verified iso, mounted as network, then copied and pasted. I am using a Kingston Data Traveler 108, of 8.0 GiB, formatted using Gparted and also with SDC.

Regardless which app I use to format it, I get "Installation error" when trying to do it. Is there any other way to make a bootable USB Stick using Ubuntu or any workaround to problem?

Thanks in advanced.

[atreyu]

You could try UnNetbootin, it is a quite popular tool for creating bootable USB disks from ISO files.

Also, there is good old dd, for bit-by-bit copy, e.g:

sudo dd if=file.iso of=/dev/sdc

where sdc is your actual USB disk device (don't just arbitrarily assume that it is sdc!)

[ivotkl]

atreyu: Thanks for the reply. I'm marking thread as solved. I'll use unetbootin. Current USB Disk is sdc1.

BTW, I was told Raspbian will never work as it uses different CPU architecture (ARM).

[atreyu]

Current USB Disk is sdc1.

Just so you are aware, in Linux, the entire disk is designated as sdc and the first partition would be sdc1.