UNetbootin
Developer: Geza Kovacs
- Reviews
- 4 / 18
- Downloads
- 51,529
- Latest version
- 702
Downloads
- UNetbootin64-bit Windows InstallerVisit download page
- UNetbootinmacOSVisit download page
- UNetbootin64-bit Linux32-bit LinuxVisit download page
Downloads are available on UNetbootin’s official website.
UNetbootin at a glance
- What it is
- Creates bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions without burning a CD
- Latest version
- 702
- Open source
- Yes
- Licence
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Made by
- Geza Kovacs
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux and macOS
- Official website
- unetbootin.github.io
- Source code
- github.com/unetbootin/unetbootin
- Alternatives
- Rufus and Universal USB Installer
Description
UNetbootin (or Universal Netboot Installer) is a free, open source utility that allows you to create bootable USB drives for the most popular OS such as Microsoft Windows and Linux distros (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu and others).
It can do a lot of things: create bootable USB drive, write an image (ISO) to a blank CD, download an image with a certain distribution (there are a lot of them available: FreeBSD, FreeDOS, Gentoo, Kaspersky Rescue Disk, F-Secure Rescue CD) for you etc.
The most powerful feature is the ability to create a bootable image right from your hard drive. If you don't have a blank CD or a USB drive, this feature will work on Linux OS and also on Microsoft Windows OS (though, GRUB needs to be installed on Windows - otherwise it won't work).
Note: UNetbootin has an excellent ability (among others) to load various anti-malware tools such as Dr. Web Antivirus, Kaspersky Rescue Disk and F-Secure Rescue CD.
Bootable USB drives will work on most PCs but not on Macs. If your USB drive is not recognized, the author suggests a reformat as FAT32. Also, the program is capable of downloading a lot of Linux distributions (CentOS, Debian, openSUSE etc.) and also other system utilities (SystemRescueCD, Super Grub Disk, Backtrack, Ophcrack, NTPasswd, Gujin, Smart Boot Manager etc.)
