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Distroshare Ubuntu Imager
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Creates an installable live CD from an installed Ubuntu or derivative distribution
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This project is brought to you by distroshare.com. Distroshare.com is
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a new site for sharing customized open source operating system distributions.
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Too often do users need to customize open source operating systems,
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such as Ubuntu, to work correctly on their machines. By distributing
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a custom Ubuntu distro with the kinks worked out for your machine, you
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would be helping others to run Ubuntu if they have the same machine.
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Distroshare Ubuntu Imager creates an installable Live ISO from an installed
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Ubuntu or derivative distribution.
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It is a bash script, similar to Remastersys and its forks. The script is
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based on this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MakeALiveCD/DVD/BootableFlashFromHarddiskInstall.
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To boot the ISO from a USB stick, you can use the dd command like this:
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dd if=isoimage.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
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where sdb is your USB drive. You should be able something similar on Mac OS X.
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You can also use UNetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ to create a
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bootable USB drive.
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Ubuntu Startup Disk creator won't be able to turn the iso into a bootable
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usb drive since Distroshare Ubuntu Imager uses grub2 as the bootloader.

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