UNetbootin

UNetbootin stands for Universal Netboot Installer and is a free program that allows a Linux or BSD distribution can be installed on computers without a CD or DVD drive, such as a USB removable media.

Features

It supports a variety of operating systems natively, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo can download the program itself constantly in the background and set up. It is also possible to access an already present on a hard drive ISO dump an install media any Linux distribution.

In addition to the installation for unix -like operating systems, the program is also suitable for creating portable direct-start systems. The installation media can be for example a USB flash drive or a partition on the same computer.

When installed on a hard disk partition, next to an existing (possibly also currently running ) system, UNetbootin can use an existing GRUB or the Windows Start program ( ntldr or bootmgr ) in order to make the newly established system bootable. With UNetbootin installed systems can be used as an operating system installation system itself again.

Availability

UNetbootin is distributed as free software in the source code under the terms of version 2 or later of the GNU General Public License ( GPL). It is in a portable Windows and a Linux version. It can be installed in many popular Linux distributions directly from the standard repositories.

History

With FUSBi exists a spin-off, which specializes in operating systems, that are blessed to be free from proprietary residual constituents by the Free Software Foundation.

Technology

The software is programmed by Geza Kovacs in the programming language C and uses Qt4 for the graphical user interface.