On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:23 +0000, updates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of > Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. > You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported > out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already > downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list. I thought I'd give this a try, and ran it from the menu, since it was listed there, only to get this warning message: UNetbootin must be run as root. Close it, and re-run using either: sudo /usr/bin/unetbootin or: su - -c '/usr/bin/unetbootin' Then it appears to run, if I close the warning. I haven't actually tested, yet, whether it manages to run successfully. But a few things spring to mind: If it really *requires* to be run as root, why is it in a menu where it cannot? We don't have a "run as" (someone else) option like Windows has. Well, at least the mate desktop does not. Why doesn't the menu call it in a way where appropriate permissions are requested as you call it? Other things that need it, such as various system configurators, get you to type in your password, or the root password, before the thing continues on. If it has to be run from the command line, why's there a menu entry? Have I missed something? (Before I go through the tortures of trying to make a bugzilla report.) -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.13.10-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Apr 14 21:00:56 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
