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Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

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I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if I'm
misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make sure your
USB isn't mounted.

dd if=<ISO file> of=/dev/sdf bs=8M



On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > it auto-mounted.
>
> > So as root I did:
> >
> > cp <ISO file> /dev/sdf
>
> You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp.  This may mean
> you have to turn off your auto-mounter, or (better still) just log out of
> your Desktop Environment entirely, and log in as root on a text console
> for this operation.
>
> If the device is mounted, that will interfere with the raw byte writing
> you're doing.  The results are unpredictable.
>
>

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Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-03 19:00 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-03 19:30 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-05-03 19:40 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image James Medeiros <james.medeiros@gmail.com> - 2019-05-03 19:30 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 04:50 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> - 2019-05-04 07:30 +0200
      RESOLVED: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-05-05 05:30 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 08:40 +0200
      Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 09:20 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 09:30 +0200
          Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 11:30 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 11:50 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-05-04 14:40 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2019-05-04 10:20 +0200
          Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 18:50 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-05-04 21:30 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-05-05 11:00 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-04 12:00 +0200
      Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-06 14:50 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-06 16:10 +0200

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