Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anssi Saari Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Use GParted to make bootable USB Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:59:56 +0200 Organization: An impatient and LOUD arachnid Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="209ab8f2f82358fcf5ec143f4f537ff1"; logging-data="3372536"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NFzTEqkyXT69T8wMcSyEk" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AJdFoHRzNs3z9qa9rd0OB/Lbqqw= sha1:lAx+a39nT/wXGm9DUQxoEm6eIPY= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37067 Robert Heller writes: > If you have the ISO image file, you can just use dd to copy it directly to the > USB thumb drive. You don't need to mess with GParted to make a bootable USB > thumb drive -- the ISO image files are already set up as bootable, from either > optical media (DVD/CD) or a USB thumb drive. I don't think this is really a sure thing for a 16 or 17 year old tweaked Knoppix release? A quick look says the latest Quantian was released March 1, 2006 and it's based on Knoppix 4 from 2005. I can't remember when ISOs became hybrids that you can just dd to USB stick or burn to DVD and boot from either but I think it was later than 2005. I remember in 2004 the ability to boot from USB wasn't a given by any means. I only remember as I had a motherboard then which was really picky about that.