Ubuntu iso to usb image

[Santanu Chatterjee]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:41 PM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

>... or if you have 10.04 installed (and 9.10 too, IIRC) in
> System/Administration there should be a tool called "Startup Disk
> Creator" that will make bootable USB isos (without having to boot back
> into the live CD).

Yes. This is what I was referring to.

> In any case, I did not realized you could simply dd a Fedora ISO to
> USB stick and have it be bootable.  CDs use a different boot method
> than other devices (USB sticks are treated as any other HDD, I
> believe).  I'll have to pull an ISO and give that a try some time.

Yes. I have tried it with openSUSE 11.2 iso and it works. I have not
tried it with a Fedora iso, but I read somewhere that it works too.

I just find this to be the easiest method... dd is available on any Linux
distro by default.

-Santanu