ISO to flash drive (bootable?)

[Chris O'Connell-4]

Hi everyone,

I've been working on a problem for a couple of hours and haven't seem to
have made much progress.

I have a netbook, an MSI Wind U100.  I want to install Mint Linux on it (I
already have Ubuntu and XP on my netbook).  Obviously, my netbook doesn't
have a CD-Rom drive, so I would like to "burn" the Mint Linux ISO file to a
flash drive I have.

I have successfully used this same flash drive to boot Moblin, so I know
both the netbook and the flash drive should be capable of booting.

I've tried using the DD command on both my Mac and on my Ubuntu
installation.  On my Mac I've done:
diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk2
sudo dd if=/Users/chrisoconnell/Downloads/LinuxMint-7.iso of=/dev/disk2
bs=1024
diskutil eject /dev/disk2

I've tried similar on my Ubuntu installation.  I've even tried bs=4096.

Anyways, when I try to boot off from this flash drive I am redirected right
to my grub boot loader on my hard drive.  (I've manually selected the boot
from flash by pressing F11 and selecting the boot device from the MSI bios
menu).

I can see the drive in my Linux installation and the files appear to be
there.  Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

Chris
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[Jerry Feldman-2]

On 11/07/2009 07:03 PM, Chris O'Connell wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been working on a problem for a couple of hours and haven't seem to
> have made much progress.
>
> I have a netbook, an MSI Wind U100.  I want to install Mint Linux on it (I
> already have Ubuntu and XP on my netbook).  Obviously, my netbook doesn't
> have a CD-Rom drive, so I would like to "burn" the Mint Linux ISO file to a
> flash drive I have.
>
> I have successfully used this same flash drive to boot Moblin, so I know
> both the netbook and the flash drive should be capable of booting.
>
> I've tried using the DD command on both my Mac and on my Ubuntu
> installation.  On my Mac I've done:
> diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk2
> sudo dd if=/Users/chrisoconnell/Downloads/LinuxMint-7.iso of=/dev/disk2
> bs=1024
> diskutil eject /dev/disk2
>
> I've tried similar on my Ubuntu installation.  I've even tried bs=4096.
>
> Anyways, when I try to boot off from this flash drive I am redirected right
> to my grub boot loader on my hard drive.  (I've manually selected the boot
> from flash by pressing F11 and selecting the boot device from the MSI bios
> menu).
>
> I can see the drive in my Linux installation and the files appear to be
> there.  Any thoughts on this?
>
>  

Did you try without specifying block size. I've seen a few complaints

about this and they suggest making a Mint Cd, then running Mint's USB
creator, but that is kind of a backwards thing to do. A possible hack is
to mount your ISO

mount -t iso9660 -r loop /Users/chrisoconnell/Downloads/LinuxMint-7.iso /tmp/mintlinux

Then run the USB creator from /tmp/mintlinux

In any case it may be worth a try.

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[dj_segfault]

Chris O'Connell wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been working on a problem for a couple of hours and haven't seem to
> have made much progress.
>
> I have a netbook, an MSI Wind U100.  I want to install Mint Linux on it (I
> already have Ubuntu and XP on my netbook).  Obviously, my netbook doesn't
> have a CD-Rom drive, so I would like to "burn" the Mint Linux ISO file to a
> flash drive I have.
>
> I have successfully used this same flash drive to boot Moblin, so I know
> both the netbook and the flash drive should be capable of booting.
>
> I've tried using the DD command on both my Mac and on my Ubuntu
> installation.  On my Mac I've done:
> diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk2
> sudo dd if=/Users/chrisoconnell/Downloads/LinuxMint-7.iso of=/dev/disk2
> bs=1024
> diskutil eject /dev/disk2
>
> I've tried similar on my Ubuntu installation.  I've even tried bs=4096.

"There's an app for that".

Under Ubuntu, choose the System --> Administration --> USB Starup Disk
Creator tool, which can read in an ISO image (chose "Other") and write
it to your USB thumbdrive.  It can even leave space for storage.
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[Bill Ricker-3]

there was a how-to on bootable flash usb in
http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-21/


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[Chris O'Connell-4]

Guys,

Thanks for all of your help.

Surprisingly, the Ubuntu utility that David mentioned worked perfectly the
first time.  I was surprised because I could swear I had already tried that.

Chris

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux@...> wrote:

> there was a how-to on bootable flash usb in
> http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-21/
>
>
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