Subj : ISO burning program
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun May 04 2025 07:11 pm

 Re: ISO burning program
 By: Digital Man to Bogomips on Sun May 04 2025 06:07 pm

>> My daughter gave me her alienware laptop. I want to burn a slackware iso to
>> a usb drive. All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
>> any recommendations?

DM> For Windows? Usually the built support for formatting the USB drive works
DM> then Windows has built-in support for opening an ISO image with the file
DM> explorer which you can then just copy all the files from the ISO to the
DM> USB drive with.

If the USB drive is to be OS install media, it would need to be bootable, and I don't think simply copying the files would make it bootable, would it?

DM> You're talking about the Slackware installation ISO? Don't they normally
DM> have instructions for how to create a bootable USB stick for installing
DM> the OS (e.g. what file system, FAT32, GPT or MBR boot record, etc.)? I
DM> don't recall needing any 3rd party software to do that.

I've typically used a 3rd-party program for that (such as Rufus), as the USB drive needs to be made bootable when writing an OS ISO..  I don't know of a built-in Windows tool that can do that, though I haven't actually checked to see if recent versions of Windows come with one.

Nightfox

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