UNetbootin
Cross-platform tool to create bootable USB drive or create Live USB drives with built-in downloader for Linux ISO images and rescue disks.
What is UNetbootin?
UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a cross-platform utility that can load Linux and other distributions to a partition or USB drive. It loads distributions either by downloading listed Linux and BSD like distributions, a variety of system utilities and rescue disks ISO file, or by using an ISO file you've already downloaded.
UNetbootin Features
UNetbootin information
- Developed byGeza Kovacs
- LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 3.2
- Alternatives49 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 2,026 Stars
- 290 Forks
- 230 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Linux
- Linux Distro
- netbsd
- fedora
- ubuntu
- live-cd
- dos
- freedos
- mepis
- arch-linux
- opensuse
- linux-mint
- centos
- create-vhd
- Live USB
- slackware
- mandriva
- freebsd
- gentoo
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I'm using UNetbootin for a decade and it is very useful to improve my workflow.
Easy to install almost any distros from local and from the internet
UNetbootin was fine at one point but it rarely works anymore. I'd recommend using
balenaEtcher or 
Rufus for booting Linux distributions or using 
Boot Camp on 
macOS in order to boot Windows.
I'm always having problems with UNetbootin. I do recommend MultiBootUSB or Rufus.
Broken under macOS Catalina. No fix in sight (yet) and equivalent tools don't work either under said OS or don't write Windows ISO images to USB. In other words, stay away until there's a fix.
Doesn't work with some distros. Works better with some other. Installing to HDD instead of USB, overwrote Winodws BCD had to add a testdisk MBR to recovery my drive Use Rufus!
Because it has the option to download ISO's for the program it self.