Subj : Re: ISO burning program
To   : Bogomips
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon May 05 2025 08:11 am

-=> Bogomips wrote to Digital Man <=-

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

Bo> I'm probably overthinking the whole thing. I'll try windows disk
Bo> program, read the slackware sight. Also, I downloaded the .iso to the
Bo> slackware laptop and will try dd

Bo> I went online and searched for iso to usb which led me to all the third
Bo> party programs.

As you said, if it's on a Linux machine already, just use dd.

The command would be:  dd bs=4M if=<iso_name> of=<target_drive>

The "of" would be something like: /dev/sdb or dev/mmc0blk1 or similar.
Be very careful you put the correct one or you could overwrite a drive
you didn't want to.  You'll need to be the root user, or use 'sudo'.

Simple and works every time.



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