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Previous improvements were reported at

• Howto make USB boot drives

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v7

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v8

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v9

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v10

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v11

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/12

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/22

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/23

mkusb version 12 ---> 22 ... 24

Version 12 of the mkusb tool was only bash scripts and version 24 is still a set of bash scripts.

The menus and dialogue windows are graphical using zenity. or text based using dialog or even very basic text, if neither zenity nor dialog is available.

dus started as mkusb version 12

dus is a new interface and structure replacing mkusb and mkusb-nox; dus should be easier to use and to maintain. There is a graphical user interface with a desktop file, guidus.

Should work with minimal instructions

guidus is a GUI front-end to dus. It provides a desktop file, that is available via the menu system in many linux flavours or dash in Unity. The graphical mode will be selected automatically for most users (running graphical desktop environments)

Quick start manual version 12 alias dus (old), ../mkUSB-quick-start-manual-12.pdf

Quick start manual version 22- alias dus, https://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/mkusb/mkUSB-quick-start-manual-22.pdf

Live-only by cloning

• mkusb-dus can make live-only drives from all hybrid iso files, and most modern linux distros provide hybrid iso files.

• Hybrid iso files
  • All current Ubuntu iso files
  • 12.04 iso files except early mini.iso files
• Possible to make into hybrid iso files
  • Ubuntu 10.10 and newer desktop iso files
    • Examples:
      • isohybrid ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
      • isohybrid ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso
• Impossible to make into hybrid iso files
  • Ubuntu 10.04, 10.04.x and older iso files
  • But mkusb-dus can make a persistent live drive of Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

Persistent live

• Linux distributions, 'distros'

  • mkusb-dus can only make persistent live drives running in and creating from 'desktop' or 'live' iso files of the following distros (but not from Ubuntu Server iso files)

    • Ubuntu, Ubuntu community flavours and some respins based on Ubuntu

    • Debian and some respins based on Debian 8 'Jessie' and newer versions

• Versions
  • Current versions

    • mkusb-dus can make persistent live drives in and from current versions of Ubuntu (not versions that have passed end of life)

  • Running mkusb-dus in Ubuntu (the current releases including the developing version).
  • Running mkusb-dus in Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and newer versions

New features

The intention is to continue to maintain the tools belonging to mkusb and to report the progress here for

• mkusb-dus: dus: dus-live, dus-persistent, dus-iso2usb, dus-restore, dus-wipe ...

• mkusb-plug

• mkusb-nox

• mkusb-bas: mkusb version 7.4.3 (old)

• mkusb-11: mkusb 11.2.2 (old)

• mkusb 24.0.1
  • dus-iso2usb: tweak_grub: tweak 5: no persistent option when 'persistent is false'
• mkusb 24.0.2
  • dus: p_menudz: increased height of window to keep the whole menu list within the window (without scrolling) for new version of zenity
• mkusb 24.0.3
  • dus:
    • p_zensize: increased height of window to keep the whole menu list within the window (without scrolling) for new version of zenity (when lower resolution)
    • p_source, p_target, p_setting, p_checkpoint, p_lisdz: The window width is increased
    • t_dus_p: 'dus-persistent ... problem with secure boot'
• mkusb 24.1.0
  • mkusb-plug: increased height of window to keep the whole menu list within the window (without scrolling) for new version of zenity

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