how to make linux os bootable usb flash drive?
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at
02:00
i have "Fedora-9-i386-DVD" image file, in my laptop dvd rom is not working. is that any possible way to make linux os bootable flash drive or suggest me to do install in some other way.
Tagged with: fedora • flash drive • image file • Linux
Filed under: Linux
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o boot from a USB storage device, use the dd command (in Linux) to write the image to a USB storage device. You need to know the correct device node for the USB storage device – usually /dev/sda1, but it may be a different letter if you have other USB storage, SCSI or SATA devices in your system. It could also be that you have to write /dev/sda without a trailing number for it to work. Be very careful, as copying the image to a SCSI or SATA hard disk will render it unbootable and destroy some data. The command to use is dd if=all.img of=/dev/sda1, adjusting the device node as appropriate. After writing the image, reboot the system with the USB storage device attached.
Check this link below for clarification:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installing_Mandriva_Linux
Hope it helps
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