For quite some time now the only installs I've done have been various versions of Kubuntu. I've been using Startup Disk Creator. I wanted to create an Arch boot USB stick and am not sure the simplest way to create a boot image on Kubuntu for non Ubuntu distros.
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Ventoy is the way to go. Create a Ventoy USB stick then just copy whatever bootable ISOs you want to it. -
startup disk creator should work on any .iso file ... even arch, btw.Comment
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Just yesterday found a drawback to Ventoy... It won't boot with secure boot enabled, where an Ubuntu USB is now supposed to. In my case yesterday I just had to turn off secure boot, but I imagine there are circumstances where that can't be done.Originally posted by oshunluvr View PostRegards, John LittleComment
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No it will let me use a Kubuntu / Ubuntu iso and even a debian-12 iso, but it won't let me use the arch, windows 10 or Windows 11 isos.Originally posted by skyfishgoo View Post
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Ventoy can boot an Arch ISO. See this thread: Ventoy and booting Arch Linux on the archlinux forum.Originally posted by Rich Oliver View PostWindows no longer obstruct my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock HolmesComment
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On secure boot: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_secure.html
Some GUI USB tools do favor the live iso/hybrid style images like Ubuntu use
And it is even possible in some cases to use a gpt and exfat formatted stick and literally copy the files. non-hybrid ones, I think.
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Apologies if my post wasn't clear I was saying with StartUpDiskCreator I could load a Kubuntu / Ubuntu iso and even a debian-12 iso, but it wouldn't let me load an arch, windows 10 or Windows 11 iso. I was reponding to the following post.Originally posted by Snowhog View Post
Originally posted by skyfishgoo View PostLast edited by Rich Oliver; Oct 18, 2025, 06:32 AM.Comment
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If all else fails, you can use dd:
sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/file.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress oflag=sync
This has worked for me on many distros.
Replace "path/to/file.iso" for your location of .iso file and "dev/sdX" with your usb sticks path, for example dev/sda.Comment
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when using startup disk creator, i noticed it does not like it if the US is already inserted before you choose the .iso and dolphin can sometimes keep a USB as active even tho it is not installed in the machine.
so the process i use is to EJECT any USB that shows in dolphin and remove the USB from that machine.
now if you use startup disk creator and choose your .iso first, before you insert the USB... it should work
i burned bodhi onto a USB with it just fine.Comment
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