Subj : ISO burning program
To : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun May 04 2025 07:49 pm
Re: ISO burning program
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on 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
> DM> works then Windows has built-in support for opening an ISO image with
> DM> the file explorer which you can then just copy all the files from the
> DM> ISO to the 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?
If it's a bootable partition, yes, but that might require more advanced Windows tools (Disk Manager?) to create the right parition type before formatting. I think it's doable with standard Windows tools, but I suppose I could be wrong. Pretty sure I'd done this exact thing for install Debian Linux multiple times.
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