Can someone help me make an install USB for Gnome Ubuntu?
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I've just done it using unetbootin: link
Download the iso for Ubuntu Gnome: Link 64-bit or 32-bit will be down to your needs.
After that you can just point unetbootin to the iso and away you go.
I would also suggest formatting your flash drive before doing it so you have the highest success rate of it working (I had to do it a few times).
Good luck!
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Nevermind, I found out how to do it by actually reading the page that you download Gnome from :) I mean with my eyeballs, crazy right, who would have thought that kind of info would be right there in front of me.
For anyone else with my problem, here is the link.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME
CTRL F and search for UNetbootin
and Bob's yer uncle.
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Yep, that's what I am doing :P
I found it about 5 mins after I made the post, update below your post :)
Nice! Hopefully the next person will use search and be ready to go! hahaha
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So I had to go and find a super old version of unetbootin from 2010 because the current version doesn't recognise my USB (even when reformated as FAT32) but that seems to have worked lol, it has the feature to "see all drives" instead of just the dropdown menu. I have no idea why they would take that feature away, even if you can just use a program such as 7 zip to put an iso onto a usb if it is NTFS. It clearly doesn't do a good job of detecting FAT32 drives.
Hmm weird. I don't have enough experience with it to know if this is common but worth mentioning for people reading in the future.
Yeah, it seemed fairly common from the amount of people on a couple different forums complaining about it.
Use http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
To burn ISO (OS) to the USB
Then use this guide to fix the USB afterwards; http://geekswithblogs.net/ilich/archive/2013/04/26/recovering-unallocated-space-of-a-usb-flash-drive.aspx
http://rufus.akeo.ie/ Main notable difference between it and unetbootin is that rufus will let you know there is a problem with your iso before you try and install it. :) I am hating sourceforge atm for all the corrupted / slow iso downloads.
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For the record, you don't need any third-party tools to create a bootable iso.
All you do is extract the image to whatever medium you're using ie; USB in your case - then make the medium bootable by adding a boot flag via any decent partition manager.
Didn't know this, so for example the CFdisk command and then * it there.
I've had issues with UNetBootin. Try "Win32 Disk Imager" which is hosted on sourceforge. When using it to select the .ISO you downloaded, make sure you change the type of file that it's looking for from .img to All Files or . or else it won't see it.
This is software that automates everything. Just select your drive and choose a few options (like your OS) and it is done.
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
*Although this creates a Linux Live USB, Ubuntu live drives come with an install option last time I checked.