How to create bootable USB thumb drive with iso file

Grizzly Real_Grizz_Adams at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Apr 29 11:47:13 UTC 2020


29 April 2020  at 12:43, Liam Proven wrote:
Re: How to create bootable USB thum (at least in part)

>On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 12:06, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
>> This is weird to read. I have used startup disk creator over several
>> versions of Ubuntu and have never had a problem with it. However, I
>> have only ever created Ubuntu bootable memory sticks.
>
>It seems to be happy to create bootable keys from other Linux ISOs,
>too. e.g. I've used it to write openSUSE ISO files with success.
>
>The one thing I've not been able to do on Linux is write a Windows ISO

For live or installer? 

I have made both and can (re)find the method if you need it

>to a USB key. For this, I need to use Rufus under Windows itself. (At
>least it does not need to be the same version.)

>But Rufus sometimes does not work with Linux ISOs. So it's complicated.

>No single tool works in all cases, but on Mac, I use Etcher, which is
>huge  (because it's one of those hideously bloated Javascript apps
>using Electron) but works and is free. On Linux I use uNetbootin or
>just `dd`. On Windows, I use Etcher or uNetbootin.

LinuxLive works well but had not seen an update lately

123 Universial USB Installer has updates but (for me at least) has not made a 
bootible USB in many releases






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