DBAN and UNetbootin

If you prefer to use UNetbootin in a Linux distro to create a bootable USB thumb drive from the downloadable DBAN image, some file editing is required for the USB to function.

By default, the bootable USB created with UNetbootin stalls and generates a RAM disk error message – which is just as well, since the configuration created by UNetbootin autonukes a hard disk on boot-up without requiring user input.

On his blog (

Alex Pounds has supplied a workaround, which we’ve paraphrased below.

In the file on the USB thumb drive created using UNetbootin, make the following text changes:

Replace all occurrences of with

Replace all occurrences of with

Delete

from the line in

Don’t forget to save the changes and remember that the entries are case sensitive.