UNetBootin isn't creating bootable flash drive from file on hard drive.
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OK, now what should I put in the ISO window within unetbootin? The mint file is called linuxmint-11-lxde-cd-32bit.iso and it is located in the Downloads directory.
I think you need to install p7zip for unetbootin to work properly have you done that ?
No, I haven't done that. What's the code?
By the way, The last time I tried this it ran for a real long time and put everything onto my hard drive somewhere, so I need to delete what I copyied now and I don't know how to do that.
By the way, The last time I tried this it ran for a real long time and put everything onto my hard drive somewhere, so I need to delete what I copyied now and I don't know how to do that.
You can search for big directories like this:
du -s * | sort -n
Start in your home directory, see which directories have a lot of space used up. Then you can cd to that directory, and run the command again, and keep following the biggest directories until you find it.
If you were running as root, you may need to do this whole procedure from the root directory (/) and go from there.
Everything here is accounted for. Maybe I do need to run the sort in root. How would I do that? Put sudo in front of the code you gave me? Or is it something with the slash you indicated? I'm showing my ignorance here, sorry.
Everything here is accounted for. Maybe I do need to run the sort in root. How would I do that? Put sudo in front of the code you gave me? Or is it something with the slash you indicated? I'm showing my ignorance here, sorry.
A lot of stuff on your computer is readable by you, so you don't really need to be root to do this. If there is a directory where you don't have read or execute permissions, and all the big files you lost are down there, then you would need to be root.
So you could use sudo or su to become root, depending on which way you like to get root:
sudo su -
or
su -
Then change to the root directory, and start checking to see which directories look "too big". Of course this is tricky, because there are lots of directories that are big and should be big. But you will find it eventually if you keep trying:
cd /
du -s * | sort -n
You're better off not being root if you don't need to be, but there's no way for me to know if you will need to be root to find those files, sorry. You will see some errors if you aren't root, because you can't read some files or directories. But that might not matter. So try it as a normal user first, if it doesn't work, become root, and try again.
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