Ubuntu iso to usb image

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/29/2010 08:11 AM, J wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:54, Santanu Chatterjee
> <thisissantanu at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Hello Everybody,
>>
>> Like recent Fedora or openSUSE iso images, is it going to be possible
>> to just 'dd' the Ubuntu 9.10 iso image to a flash drive and install
>> from it on a computer without cdrom drive? Ubuntu 9.10 did not have
>> this property. IIRC I had to boot into the live cd and then create the
>> usb image from there.
>>      
> I don't know that simply dd-ing an ISO to USB is going to work, but
> you could always use unetbootin to create bootable USB sticks from the
> ISO images... 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).
>
> 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.
>
>    
         I have been trying to use 
System-Administration-Startup-disk-creator and it never finds my 10.04 
cd-rom in my cd/dvd player, and is hung up on a floppy disk!! So I quit 
this and will try dd and see if that even works. I have a plain USB 
stick erased for this work.

73 Karl


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