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Cushie
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 Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:52 pm Post subject: ow to copy Cover Disk to Usb drive |
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I'm sure this topic must have been covered but I get no results from the 'search' box.
I like use my AoA netbook for reading articles and trying out new distros. Instead of burning a distro from an iso file I would like to boot the coverdisk but have no attached DVD ROM!
How can I copy the DVD to a USB stick using another computer and be able to boot from that and be able to read the articles? I have tried 'dd' but not got the parameters correct yet and had to reformat the drive to get it back in use. |
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Dutch_Master
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| Try Unetbootin. |
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dandnsmith
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Subject to correction by someone who knows different, dd won't work with an iso designed to give a bootable CD/DVD - the structure is wrongly set up, and is designed for CD. Unetbootin will get the correct structure in place.
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Cushie
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| Thank you for your suggestions Dutch_Master and 'dandnsmith' I have tried Unetbootin with the latest Lxf dvd 152 and is will copy/install an iso file on the dvd eg Fedora/Gnome Live, which is there as an iso file, but I can't get it to copy the whole dvd so that I could use it on the netbook. |
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nelz
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Unetbootin expects an ISO image to work from. You could try giving /dev/dvd as the name of the ISO image in Unetbootin. It should work, although I've not tried it. If it doesn't, copy the DVD to an ISO image with
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and tell Unetbootin to use that.
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