Burn iso to usb pen drive
 

I would like to dump Windows entirely, but have not found a method to burn an iso to a pendrive using Linux.

Puppy has no built in program to burn an iso to a pen drive. ??
They only offer to install Puppy to a pen drive.

Unetbootin and live usb install do not work.

Any recommendations ?

You might like to try isohybrid to convert the ISO to a hybrid ISO capable of booting from a flash memory device.

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/iso2usb

Then it's just a matter of using a low-level copy utility (eg dd) to write to the USB memory stick.

BTW, many distros already provide suitable hybrid ISO's for booting from USB memory stick devices.

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/744
https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick

Thanks ferrari.

< BTW, many distros already provide suitable hybrid ISO's for booting from USB memory stick devices.

What distros are those ?

Well, I did list two. Check the links. :)

Thanks.

I now have to consider something.

Do I want to install a new O.S. only for one task, when Windows can already do it.

:-)

I still LOVE linux.

There are lots of options to consider. I still dual boot, but some users make use of virtualization, allowiing the possibility of running a guest OS within the environment of another -good for those who need to have a windows environment available but without needing to dual boot.

https://www.virtualbox.org/

Dual boot is rather easy.

I have used virtual box.

More bugs than Windows. :-)

Can we assume that you only need this usb to be used in order to then install some distro to your hard drive???

Yes.

You can just use the dd command & not have to install any other app.

I found this.

Does this look right ?

No, you don't write the file to a mounted memory stick. This is a low-level copy to an unmounted device.

Also notice that you write to the whole device, not a partition on the device. It will actually destroy any existing file structure on the device. (You should end up with a bootable image on the device.)

Also debian actually makes 2 partitions on the device, atleast the 64-bit does. The 2nd would be EFI, so just classify as sdc

I'd wonder why standard live creators don't work. ??


"/your/usb/disk try this."

Should be /dev/sdx

x being the correct drive. You need to discover that.

As noted, NOT sdx1. While that may in fact work to copy data, it won't create a bootable usb.

I usually don't use the block size portion but it shouldn't hurt in this. bs=