Burn iso to usb pen drive

Fixit7 · 06-05-2015, 08:57 PM

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 ?

ferrari · 06-06-2015, 12:45 AM

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

Fixit7 · 06-06-2015, 01:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ferrari

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 ?

ferrari · 06-06-2015, 02:55 AM

Quote:

What distros are those ?

Well, I did list two. Check the links.

Fixit7 · 06-06-2015, 03:03 AM

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.

ferrari · 06-06-2015, 03:48 AM

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/

Fixit7 · 06-06-2015, 04:57 AM

Dual boot is rather easy.

I have used virtual box.

More bugs than Windows. :-)

jefro · 06-06-2015, 03:03 PM

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

Fixit7 · 06-06-2015, 03:37 PM

EDDY1 · 06-06-2015, 04:00 PM

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

Fixit7 · 06-06-2015, 04:40 PM

I found this.

Quote:

dd if=/path/to/your/isofile of=/your/usb/disk try this.

Does this look right ?

Quote:

dd if=/root/Downloads/root/Downloads/debian-8.0.0-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso of=mnt/sdc1

ferrari · 06-06-2015, 05:15 PM

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

Code:

umount /dev/sdc1

Code:

dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M

ferrari · 06-06-2015, 05:19 PM

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.)

EDDY1 · 06-06-2015, 05:37 PM

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

jefro · 06-06-2015, 07:28 PM

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=