How do I start etcher in Ubantu 22.04

[alanleu]

Tried to install HA on an old laptop. I chose ‘generic x86-64’. Set the BIOS, and install Ubuntu on a USB drive. Booted the laptop into Ubuntu from the USB drive. Now at the step ‘Write the image to your boot media’. step 2 says 'download and start Balena Etcher. I did the download which is a zip file. I unzipped the file which created an ‘AppImage’ file. I am not a linux user. How do I ‘start the Balena Etcher’? TIA.

[stevemann (Stephen Mann (YAML-challenged))]

Are you running Ubuntu Desktop or Server?

For the desktop:

How to Install Etcher on Ubuntu {via GUI or Terminal} | phoenixNAP KB

I don’t recommend Ubuntu Server for most uses, the desktop doesn’t take much more resources to run and everything is just easier to do. Server is OK if you are well versed in using the Linux in a terminal and don’t plan to run anything from a terminal console (or SSH).

[m0wlheld (Christoph Dahlen)]

You don‘t use Etcher on Linux but „dd“ from the command line.

[wmaker (Tommy Long)]

FYI, Here is another thread on this topic:

How to Balena Etcher on Ubuntu 22.04

For those who are choosing to: install the Home Assistant Operating System on generic x86/64 using a Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as the live OS for writing the image to the boot medium You might run into a problem running Balena Etcher on Ubuntu. For me, the appimage would just silently fail to run. Running these two commands from the command line got me unblocked: sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt-get install libfuse2 Hopefully this helps someone googling for the problem.

[m0wlheld (Christoph Dahlen)]

@alanleu

Tried to install HA on an old laptop.

So, you managed to bring the Ubuntu image to an USB stick and start a Laptop from it, but fail to bring the HA (OS?) image to a USB stick and boot that Laptop from it?