Conor Schaefer on 2 Aug 2014 10:25:51 -0700 |
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Re: [PLUG] Why Doesn't dd work for all ISO files? |
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On 08/02/2014 08:40 AM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> I've been doing a bunch of distro testing lately, and so have had the
> opportunity to transfer iso files to thumb drives.
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> Most distros can be loaded onto a bootable thumb drive using the
> fantastic unetbootin utility. Some (such as KaOS (http://kaosx.us/ )
> cannot be loaded with netbootin and instead need the "dd" command to
> copy the iso file as a binary onto the thumb drive.
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> BTW, isn't KaOS a great distro name? They could have cool code names for
> their versions such as "Chief", "Siegfried", or "Hymie".
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> Anyway, it seem to me that __ALL__ iso files from distros should be
> transferable to thumb drives by using dd. I've tried this, however, and
> most of them fail to boot.
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> Can anybody explain why this is so?
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