[17:28] <Langley> What do I use for formatting a USB stick in Lubuntu? All the USB startup creators are failing
[17:29] <wxl> for putting an iso on Langley ?
[17:29] <Langley> Yes
[17:29] <wxl> i use dd, but if you want something more safe there's unetbootin or mkusb
[17:30] <wxl> mkusb is developed by one of the lubuntu team
[17:30] <Langley> They doesn't work
[17:30] <wxl> currently it's not in the repos but we're working on that
[17:30] <wxl> i've never had a failure with unetbootin
[17:30] <wxl> i personally don't use mkusb
[17:30] <wxl> and dd just doesn't fail
[17:31] <Langley> Can't you just answer my question about how to format it
[17:31] <wxl> you said they don't work?
[17:31] <wxl> that kind of suggested you knew what you were doing
[17:32] <wxl> i'd just use mkusb https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
[17:35] <Langley> Installed Gparted and formatted it. Why cant you just give a proper answer instead of all other kinds of things
[17:36] <Langley> And why does linux have so much trouble with usb sticks... ugh...
[17:36] <wxl> i'm not sure what you're looking for. i have no problem with usb sticks. the "proper answer" is found in using mkusb.
[17:37] <wxl> shall i reiterate every step of that wiki page for you?
[17:39] <Langley> Sorry I gotta go to a movie night
[21:40] <vn> trying to boot livecd, does the same as ubuntu xubuntu debian and kali2 - freezes at approx same spot without error - networking.service or whoopsie.service no shell accessible, no syslog, thought of playing with UEFI, but only option I got in my Award BIOS is for CD/DVD..only system that can boot is actually Ubuntu server LTS but grub gets a fatal error.  tried removing my NICs to see if it matters, no.  it's Lubuntu I really want, others were for testing, idea
[22:25] <Langley> wxl: Doesn't seem like mskusb is working either. It's stuck at "please wait for sync"
[22:26] <wxl> how do you know it's stuck?
[22:27] <Langley> It shouldn't take more time to "sync", whatever that is, than it will to actually put the iso on it
[22:27] <wxl> don't you think that's the actual syncing?
[22:27] <Langley> What is?
[22:28] <wxl> copying the iso
[22:28] <wxl> did you look ato see if the process is frozen or not?
[22:29] <Langley> How do I see that
[22:29] <wxl> top is one such possibility
[22:29] <wxl> there's also the system monitor or whatevery they call it
[22:29] <Langley> ... oh it finished
[22:30] <wxl> well there you go
[22:30] <wxl> patience is a virtue
[22:30] <Langley> I don't get why it can take that much time to copy 2 GB... but you'll have my thanks
[22:31] <wxl> there's a lot of reasons, including the potential bottleneck of using usb