"Burning" and ISO image to USB drive

[Roby]

Anthony Yarusso wrote:

> I'd like to know how I can do the equivalent of burning a CD, but to
> something other than a CD.  Ultimately, I want to take my external hard
> drive, partition it, and have one partition be an installation I can use
> (easy), and the second be essentially an Ubuntu install disk, so that I
> can use it to install on other people's computers while I'm carrying
> this thing around.  How can I extract the disk image to accomplish that?

If your .iso image file is located in /foo and you have a mount
point /mnt/bar, do this:

sudo mount /foo/file.iso /mnt/bar -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop1

The extracted image is in /mnt/bar