Easily write ISO files to USB drives in Linux.
Writing an ISO file to a USB drive just got super easy for me. I found this program called UNetbootin which lets me select and ISO drive, select the /device I want to write to, and BAM, bootable USB drive. One thing to note, when selecting your /device (e.g. /dev/sdb1) make sure it’s mounted. When I plugged in my 1gig stick I mounted it to /mnt/sdb1 and selected /dev/sdb1 from the drop down menu. You’ll need to know which /device is your USB drive. Ubuntu automatically mounts your drive so all you have to do is run a “df” command in a shell to see all your mounted drives.
With UNetbootin I was able to write any ISO file to any USB stick and boot them on a few various laptops and Netbooks I have kicking around that support booting off USB drives.
Ahhh yes, no more manually copying files to thumb drives and manually creating Master Boot records…..gotta love it!
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I was just messing with this in class the other day, from windows. I was havving quite a bit of trouble getting it to work though, I think it was a permissions issue with the school computer.
With UNetbootin? Yeah it’s pretty cool. I did confirm you DO need admin privs to run this as it needs low level drive access. It basically runs the windows version of “DD”.