![]() A search led to two “conversion” techniques: use IMG to ISO (freeware), buy Magic ISO Maker, or (as advised by several sources) just rename the extension from IMG to ISO. One possibility, I thought, would be to convert the IMG to an ISO and then use that Unlisted ISO option. But I thought I might try these IMG downloads first, before giving up and taking that road. In that case, fooling around with the IMG download would just amount to delaying the inevitable: I would ultimately have to go back and download the ISO version anyway. There was a possibility that an IMG file, or at least some IMG files, were not suited for the kind of booting that YUMI needed to do. YUMI did offer the option to “Try an Unlisted ISO,” but had no similar option for an unlisted IMG. I did have one IMG already installed on my YUMI drive: YUMI’s installer (version 0.0.9.5) recognized Balder FreeDOS, which was an IMG download. The problem with the IMG downloads was that, for the most part, YUMI only recognized ISOs. In part, I continued because the PC-BSD ISO was 3.4GB, which was going to take quite a while to download on my dial-up modem (kidding, but not by much - my AT&T broadband was lame). But for purposes of this post, I decided to continue to some point with the IMG option. On revisiting the download pages, I saw that this might have created my problem: I did have the option of downloading an actual ISO rather than a zipped file that would turn out to contain an IMG file. I found a list of offbeat operating systems and selected two that seemed most relevant to my situation: PC-BSD and Haiku.įollowing the instructions on the download page as I understood them, I downloaded the USB-compatible version rather than the DVD version of each of those two operating systems. I wondered if a non-Linux-based operating system would do the trick. The problem was hardware, I suspected - a motherboard that would cause the Linux bootup process to freeze. Even Puppy Linux, which had surmounted previous hardware hurdles, found itself on a leash this time around. ![]() But I was facing a new problem - or, actually, the return of an old one: a computer that would just give me a blinking cursor on a black screen when I tried to boot it using an Ubuntu CD or various Linux-based distributions or tools on a YUMI drive. ![]() I had taken several steps to produce a working YUMI multiboot USB drive.
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