usb-creator for Ubuntu 8.04.x LTS (Hardy)
The Ubuntu built-in tool usb-creator is a nice thing. But if you want to use a LTS (long time support) version, you will have to fallback to the Ubuntu 8.04. Unfortunately usb-creator was initialy added in version 8.10 (Intrepid). But only a few steps are required to use it:
- install the two dependencies, if needed
sudo apt-get install syslinux
sudo apt-get install mtools
- find a usb-creator binary package
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/i386/usb-creator
- get a package with wget
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18940109/usb-creator_0.1.10_all.deb
- install the package
sudo dpkg -i usb-creator_0.1.10_all.deb
- start the usb-creator
sudo usb-creator
just follow the steps on the gui and wait until all files are copied
reboot & run Ubuntu 8.04
If you are using the server edition and don't have a gui installed, you will have to install gnome for example. But if you are doing so, I'm sure you don't need usb-creator ;-)