Re: have a mate-desktop CD
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 07:45:51PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>shirish wrote:
>> As I was on MS-Windows had to resort to using a variety of softwares
>> trying out rufus and other softwares. For some reason, other than
>> unetbootin none of the others worked.
>
>Did you run Rufus in its "DD" mode ?
>
> https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/843
>
> "DD is an exact clone of the image onto the USB.
> [...]
> On the other hand what ISO mode does is partition and format the USB
> in a way that Windows can always understand (and using the whole
> capacity of the drive), and then copy each individual file and
> directory from the ISO image onto the newly created file system."
Nod, this is exactly why I recommend DD mode. On the few times I've
had to use it, it worked well.
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