cant run unetbootin-linux-583

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/05/2013 11:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 01/05/2013 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 01/06/2013 11:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> $ ./unetbootin-linux-583
>>>
>>> ./unetbootin-linux-583: error while loading shared libraries: 
>>> libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
>>> directory
>>>
>>> # yum provides libpng12
>>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>>> No Matches found
>>> [root at lx120e2 ~]# yum provides libpng12.so.0
>>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
>>> 2:libpng-compat-1.5.10-1.fc17.i686 : Temporary 
>>> backwards-compatibility copy of old libpng
>>> Repo        : fedora
>>> Matched from:
>>> Provides    : libpng12.so.0
>>>
>>> # yum install libpng-compat
>>>
>>> And I still get:
>>>
>>> $ ./unetbootin-linux-583
>>> ./unetbootin-linux-583: error while loading shared libraries: 
>>> libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
>>> directory
>>>
>>> So how do I get this to work?  FWIW, my system is a x86_64 install.
>>>
>>>
>> What is unetbootin-linux-583 ?   I installed unetbootin from the F17 
>> repositories and that file doesn't exist.  And "whatprovides" returns 
>> nothing.
>
> Great.  Got it installed, selected the iso I downloaded and tried to 
> install to my usb drive.  But a 'small' problem.
>
> unetbootin wants my usb drive to be /dev/sdb1, and my system is 
> installing it as /dev/sdb
>
> Now to figure out how to fix this...
>
>
So, I thought that if I had another USB drive in another port first, 
then the drive I want to install on, everything would be cool.

For some reason that other drive comes in as /dev/sdb1 and the one I 
want always comes in as /dev.sbd

Now what?