Re: OT: How to copy .ISO to flash drive
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:26:19 -0500,
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote in message
<[🔎] 3F6B747B.2080701@acu.edu>:
> Anyone know how to copy an .ISO file to a flash drive?
>
> Specifically, I'm wanting to copy the 50MB .ISO "D* Small Linux" (you
/\/\
..sissy.__________________________________________|||| ;-)
..I use it with the openMosix stuff and the clusterKnoppix kernel. ;-)
> know, if you'd change that name I could hand out this business card
> CDs like candy; as it is, it's not getting my playtime in my part of
> the world) to a 64MB "PenDrive", in the hopes that the flash drive
> will be bootable on newer machines and give me the Linux capability of
> DSL.
..chk http://damnsmalllinux.org/off-site.html for " USB Memory Stick".
> (Later, when I can afford a 1GB flash drive, I want to try the same
> thing with Knoppix.)
>
> I tried to run cfdisk on the 50MB DSL bccd to see what partitioning
> scheme it uses, but cfdisk said the partition table is corrupt, so I'm
> assuming the CD has some sort of special partitioning/formatting, and
> I'll need to do a bit-by-bit copy using something like dd. But I don't
> know how to use dd well enough to get the boot sector in place and
> etc.
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