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AFAIK, the Slacko Puppy image is not in the isohybrid format that would be needed for doing it the dd way. You may have luck with converting it using the isohybrid command, alternatively Unetbootin will help you to get a working Slacko USB drive.
Copying the entire ISO image to a USB flash drive works only for "dual format" images that have been built to work as both a CD/DVD image and as a partitioned, bootable device when copied to a flash drive. To make a bootable flash drive for SystemRescueCd, you need to follow the instructions on the sysresccd.org web site.
[EDIT] Sorry, I've misunderstood what you are trying to do.
Copying the entire ISO image to a USB flash drive works only for "dual format" images that have been built to work as both a CD/DVD image and as a partitioned, bootable device when copied to a flash drive. To make a bootable flash drive for SystemRescueCd, you need to follow the instructions on the sysresccd.org web site.
[EDIT] Sorry, I've misunderstood what you are trying to do.
I got a bootable Systemrescue cd on a pendrive.
But I could not find anything that would let me make a disk image to another drive.
Unetbootin is hit and miss. It sometimes does not write the right disk to the ISOLINUX boot loader configuration for some distributions. It affects USB devices. As a result it will boot to the wrong partition and the system will not be able to find the kernel or filesystem.
I am not sure exactly what happens with Unetbootin that causes this. I have observed it happen with a number of different ISO images while creating USB bootable disks. Please do not quote me on this, as I am not 100% positive of the cause or it's accuracy.
As a result, I try to avoid using Unetbootin in favor of dd.
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