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bootable USB drive creation

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I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as
an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive,
I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from.

My search turned up resources on this, but it seems the answers were about
booting a Linux rescue disk or such.

I tried just to dd the iso to the usb drive (/dev/sdc) but that did not do
the trick. Was that supposed to work just like that?

There is unetbootin, but I rather do not install more software until I can
run the hdd diagnostic. My drive is dying according to smartmon. (Also it
is only for sid and I am on stable.)

Thanks for any insight.
-Matyas

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bootable USB drive creation "Matyas A. Sustik" <msustik@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 20:00 +0200
  Re: bootable USB drive creation Børge Holen <holen.borge@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 20:20 +0200
  Re: bootable USB drive creation "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-10-26 20:50 +0200
  Re: bootable USB drive creation Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-10-26 21:20 +0200
    Re: bootable USB drive creation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-26 22:50 +0200
      Re: bootable USB drive creation "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-10-26 23:30 +0200
  Re: bootable USB drive creation David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-10-27 07:50 +0200

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