Universal USB Installer – Easy as 1 2 3

IMPORTANT NOTE: Ensure that your USB drive is fat16/fat32 formatted, otherwise Syslinux will fail and your drive will NOT Boot.

USB Flash Drive Creation Prerequisites:

• Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.9.7.exe
• Windows XP/Vista/7 or WINE to create the USB (Win 98/2K WILL NOT Work!)
  
• Fat32 Formatted Flash Drive
• PC with a BIOS that can boot from USB
• Your Favorite Linux ISO

Feel free to inform me of unlisted Live Linux distributions, and or version revisions for listed distributions, and I will do my best to update the UUI tool to support them.

• Baltix Linux
• Matriux
• Terralinux
• Netrunner
• OSGeo Live
• Deepin Linux
• LinHES Linux
• Trisquel Linux
• Satux Linux
• BackBox Linux
• Chakra Linux
• XBMCbuntu
• Pear OS
• BlehOS
• Avira Antivir Rescue System
• Bitdefender Rescue CD
• AVG Rescue CD
• F-Secure Rescue CD
• Ultimate Edition
• Plasma Active
• Mandriva One 2011
• Elementary OS
• Pardus Linux
• Bootable Cluster CD
• Uber Student
• Leeenux
• Rescatux
• LPS
• DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux)
• Deft Linux
• Zorin OS
• Porteus
• Dreamlinux
• Sn0wL1inuX 11
• Ubuntu Studio 11.04 Installer
• Elementary Unleashed (Dorian 1.1)
• Bodhi
• Trinity Rescue Kit
• G Data Antivirus Boot CD
• OpenSUSE
• KON-BOOT
• Android x86
• Acronis Rescue CD
• WifiWay
• Jolicloud (NetBook Distro) Joli-OS-1.2
• Windows Vista & Windows 7/8 Installers
• Hiren's Boot CD (untested, but reported working)
• ArchBang
• PING – Parted Image is Not Ghost
• Tails – Private Browsing via TOR
• Lighthouse Pup
• Edubuntu 10.10/11.04/11.10/12.04
• Qimo 4 Kids
• DouDouLinux
• Mythbuntu 10.10/11.04/11.10/12.04
• Panda SafeDisk CD
• BlackBuntu
• KNOPPIX V 6.4
• Pinguy OS
• Macbuntu-iso
• Linux XP Like 10.10
• Finnix Linux
• MCNLive
• Sabayon Linux
• Ubuntu 9.10/10.04.x/10.10/11.04/11.10/12.04 Desktop i386/amd64
• Kubuntu 10.04.x/10.10/11.04/11.10/12.04 Desktop i386/amd64
• Xubuntu 10.04/10.10/11.04/11.10/12.04 Desktop i386/amd64
• Lubuntu 10.04/10.10/11.04/11.10/12.04
• Ubuntu NetBook Remix 10.04/10.10
• Ubuntu Rescue Remix
• Ubuntu Server 11.04/11.10/12.04 32bit/64bit Installer
• Ubuntu Mini Remix 10.04
• Sugar on a Stick
• Arch Linux
• XBMC
• ZenWalk Live
• PCLinuxOS MiniMe
• TinyCore 4
• CentOS
• Fedora 14/15/16
• Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.5
• Runt Linux 5.0
• Feather Linux 0.7.5
• Debian Live
• Peppermint Linux OS
• GParted
• PartedMagic
• EasyPeasy 1.6 (NetBook Distro)
• DBAN 2.2.6 (Hard Disk Nuker)
• RIP Linux
• Dr.Web Live CD Scanner
• Lucid Puppy
• Fatdog64 (64 bit Puppy Linux)
• BackTrack 3, 4, 5, R1, R2
• YlmF OS V3.0
• Linux Mint
• Crunchbang
• gOS 3.1 gadgets
• Ultimate Boot CD
• Gentoo 10.1
• xPUD 0.9.2
• Simply MEPIS
• DSL (Damn Small Linux) 4.4.9
• Puppy Linux
• Puppy Arcade 8 (Console Game Emulator)
• Kiwi Linux 9.04
• SLAX 6.1.2
• SliTaZ
• Ophcrack XP
• Clonezilla
• Dynebolic 2.5.2 DHORUBA
• PLoP Linux 4.0.5 (a minimalist Linux Rescue System)
• System Rescue CD 1.5.4 (another Linux Rescue System)

More Live Linux Distributions will be added as time permits. Feel free to contact me to submit recommendations.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• If you're running a Windows Vista or 7 Installer from your USB, after the first reboot, remove the flash drive and let the pc complete from the hard disk.
• When browsing for an ISO, UUI will only display ISO Files that match exactly what the tool is asking for. For example, if you chose to install Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop i386, you should not expect the tool to display your ubuntu-10.10-netbook-i386.iso as you have not chosen to install the netbook variant.

Auto Detection: If you run Universal USB Installer from the same directory containing an installable ISO, the script should Auto Detect the ISO and bypass step 2.

This tool does not support installing and booting from multiple Linux Distributions. Only One Distribution can be installed per USB drive. However, the YUMI Multiboot USB Creator can be used to create a Multi System USB Device.

To try an unlisted ISO, I.E. "Ubuntu 9.10", choose one of the the last two options in Step 1, "Try Unlisted Linux ISO". Please inform me of unlisted "Linux ISOs" you get to work via these options, and I'll add them.

Resolved as of version 1.8.8.3 –>: *OpenSUSE will only work with some USB drives with this installer. A limit imposed by the use of MBRID to locate configuration files, instead of by drive LABEL or UUID. However, if you receive a boot error stating "No Devices Matches MBR Identifier", you may be able to fix it from a running Linux environment.

Fix the OpenSUSE "No Devices Matches MBR Identifier" error:

1. Plug in your OpenSUSE USB
2. Open a terminal, type sudo su and press enter
3. Type fdisk -l and press enter
4. Copy the 0x######## Disk Identifier listed to the mbrid file located at boot/grub/mbrid

Another approach that I have heard works occasionally when this fails, is to simply enter 0×00000000 into the mbrid file.

UUI will run in WINE under Linux and everything with the exception of the format option should work. A dedicated Linux based method is planned (let me know if you are willing to port UUI to Linux). You can also visit the "How to install Linux from a Linux CD" section for Live CD based USB Linux installation tutorials, or use another Linux USB Creator.