Awesome. Your explanation is simple and makes sense.
I was on Intrepid and I did not see this in the documentation.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
I would replace the entire Automatic Approaches section with your
explanation.
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Creating Bootable USB drive is a usab
Sorry to hear about your horrible experience. I've been there.
Good news though - this has been fixed in Intrepid. See the package usb-
creator, which is installed by default and adds a "Create USB startup
disk" option in System->Administration.
** Changed in: gnome-mount (Ubuntu)
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