1.) What is the official/recommended way to make ubuntu usbs from image files?, for old releases and newer releases respectively?
My dded dongles don't even initialize when booting!, and I'm fairly confident with dd and ddrescue, less with cp, and have been making backup of drives and stuff so far successfully.
2.) Do the ubuntu usbs have to be usb-creator-gtked in order to boot? If yes, since what release untiol what release? Interested in older releases esspeccially.
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ever since USB became an option probably in 2009. – mikewhatever Nov 05 '20 at 19:33dd
is a cloning tool. The Startup Disk Creatorusb-creator-gtk
is also a cloning tool, and the result (when used correctly) will be identical. But `dd' is risky because there is no final checkpoint, it does what you tell it to do without any questions, so I would recommend the Startup Disk Creator or some other cloning tool with a final checkpoint. See more details at this link. – sudodus Nov 05 '20 at 19:52