Ubuntu – Can’t install with usb pen drive, SYSLINUX problem

I think there is no easier way than this illustrated here.

In short:

• After Downloading Ubuntu.

• Open the dash and search for Startup Disk Creator (for the dash click the icon on top right).

• Start the Startup Disk Creator and Click on Other

• Then select open and search the location that you have downloaded Ubuntu (normally in ~/Downloads)

• Select the USB stick in the bottom box and click 'Make Startup Disk'.

Taken from this excellent guide.

have you tried using dd command. the usage is sudo dd if=< /path/to/your/iso > of= < /your/target/device >.

let me warn you firsthand, you can recover a partition accidentally deleted but, if you write your iso to the wrong drive using dd, you cannot recover the data from the overwritten partiion.. use it with caution. to find out which device you want to write on, type 'lsblk' in terminal. it will give you the list of devices. for example, if it says that /dev/sdb is 3.73 gb with a partition sdb1, with ubuntu.iso in your home folder, your command should be

sudo dd if=/home/username/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdb

if you want to reuse the pendrive, go to gparted and select your device correctly and in menu bar click device >> crate partition table. it will create a ms-dos partition table which is what we need. now, we can create partitions on it. click on new and then select ntfs and name it. i think you can understand the later steps.