Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[Qqmike]

Maybe I'm just tired, but I can't find decent documentation on the dd commands for Windows. This is the bad best:
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
UNetbootin for Windows: what if you omit the img extension (i.e., use no extension) when trying to write that img file to a flash drive using UNetbootin? Try to fool UNetbootin into using the img as an iso (this is probably nonsense, but who knows). Frustrating, huh? Boy, a CD would be easy (I think -- assuming Windows has a CD image burner).

[logan01]

The flash drive file name doesn't have an extension (,img). Should I add that to the file name for dd purposes or is it not required?

[logan01]

Ok. Thanks.

[Qqmike]

I guess we need a Windows guy to help here. It's been too many years since I used XP, and even then I didn't do a lot of stuff like we do in Linux (where it is so easy). But I do recall that burning an iso image to a CD was trivial, using Nero (which did all the work!). We need some exe Windows command-line help here. I would have to go study up on some of this, which I'd rather not do ...

[Qqmike]

The file
refind-flashdrive-0.9.0.img
is the file we've been talking about(downloaded for the rEFInd flash drive application).The dd command is for Linux. You'll have to find the dd-for-Windows equivalent(s) and learn how they are used.

The Windows command will probably be almost the same. I'm just not sure about the device notation for Windows (for Linux, the flash drive on MY system is /dev/sdb -- I don't know what the equivalent is on Windows). On YOUR system, you have to figure out how your flash drive is seen IN WINDOWS.You must not make any mistakes with the dd command! They are not reversible.Hopefully, the references show examples, or there are how-to's. The end result will be very simple, like it is for my Linux dd command: one simple command. I am not a Windows guy, remember? The other easy choice is to burn a CD image in Windows to a CD.

[logan01]

I download dd for windows. Launched the .exe after unzipping. Looks like a dos window. What the heck do I do with it?

[logan01]

I see it. Where do I do that? What do I do with my flash drive and what should be on it?

[Qqmike]

see my last post above

[logan01]

UNebootin automatically added .img after I had added iso. Downloaded, it had no extension.

[Qqmike]

Easy done. Experiment took 0.06 seconds plus re-boot time. I simply wrote that rEInd img file to a flash drive and re-booted and it worked to boot me into my OS here. Took a one-line command:

sudo [B][COLOR=#ff0000]dd[/COLOR][/B] if=[B]refind-flashdrive-0.9.0.img[/B] of=/dev/sdb bs=16M

 0+1 records in
 0+1 records out
 7012352 bytes (7.0 MB) copied, 0.0551239 s, 127 MB/s

(The flash drive is /dev/sdb.)

I posted some "dd for Windows" references above somewhere.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/windd/
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
http://superuser.com/questions/83950...ivalent-for-dd

[logan01]

I'll try the ,iso rename, etc.

[logan01]

The only rEFInd I can find and it's from SourceForge where I got the other. It too will be .img and not iso extension, if that is what kept it from booting.

[elijathegold]

You shouldn't need to rename the .img file for this to work. You shouldn't just copy the file to the USB key instead use a low level file tool to write it. I don't know if unetbootin handles .img files, they will have a very different format to .iso. Bearing in mind that I haven't used Windows at home since 2002, this seems to be the goto piece of software for Windows even though the reviews suggest people either love or hate it.

[Qqmike]

i.e., first rename the file from img to iso, then try UNetbootin.

[Qqmike]

You can try re-naming that .img file as an .iso file;
so file.img becomes file.iso.
Save a copy of the original img file beforehand (I'm not sure why, maybe chicken superstition).