Some links on creating bootable USB sticks from ISO media (for a Linux rescue CD)
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/05
These did help me a lot:
- UNetbootin – Homepage and Downloads (tested on Mac OS X Yosemite and Windows 7; works with Knoppix, fails with Alt Linux Rescue)
- OSXDaily – List All Mounted Drives and their Partitions from the Terminal
- Making a bootable USB key from an .iso image on Mac OS X – Borgström ♕ (nice, but one
ddtypo and you hosed your HDD / SSD) - 10 Tools to Make a Bootable USB from an ISO File (lists only Windows tools)
- List All Mounted Drives and their Partitions from the Terminal
- Rescue – ALT Linux Wiki the Write – ALT Linux Wiki tells it should works with both of the below, but they fail as something keeps the Lexar USB stick locked:
In the end: UNetBootin with the knoppix image worked fine. Alt Linux Rescue failed (it copied fine, but it had a kernel panic upon boot).
Downloads I tried:
- http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/flavours/rescue/regular-rescue-20160622-x86_64.iso
- https://launchpadlibrarian.net/260892854/unetbootin-mac-625.dmg
- http://launchpad.net/unetbootin/trunk/625/+download/unetbootin-windows-625.exe
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/260121866/unetbootin-windows-625.exe
- http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/win32diskimager/Archive/Win32DiskImager-0.9.5-binary.zip
- http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.6.0DVD-2015-11-21-EN.iso
- http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/HDDRawCopy1.10Portable.exe
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/damnsmall/current/dsl-4.4.10-initrd.iso
Commands
- fdisk -l | grep sd
- smartctl -a /dev/
–jeroen
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