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[SOLVED]Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
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[SOLVED]Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
Hi!I would like to find out if there is a Debian package that can create bootable USB from ISO.
I have been using openSUSE and it has Imagewriter package for creating bootable USB and I was wondering if Debian has a similar package.
I have been using openSUSE and it has Imagewriter package for creating bootable USB and I was wondering if Debian has a similar package.
Last edited by 4joeyirosh1 on 2018-08-16 19:26, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
Please refer to this post:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=136293
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=136293
Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
When you have a question, always search the forums, many times it has been asked previously. Then you won't have to wait even a short time for an answer.4joeyirosh1 wrote:Hi!I would like to find out if there is a Debian package that can create bootable USB from ISO.
Also, please read this.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47078
[edit] If you choose to use dd, as suggested by the previous poster, be sure you understand the command well, if your output goes to the incorrect place, you might trash your system.
Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
Sometimes I search for software here
https://wiki.debian.org/Software
led me to these:
https://wiki.debian.org/iso_image
https://wiki.debian.org/ManipulatingISOs
https://wiki.debian.org/Software
led me to these:
https://wiki.debian.org/iso_image
https://wiki.debian.org/ManipulatingISOs
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
I am aware one can already use commands such as dd to create bootable USB.
What I was asking is if there is a debian package that has a GUI to make it much simpler to create bootable USBs without typing risky terminal commands.As I said openSUSE has imagewriter where one simply drags the iso onto the imagewriter GUI and clicks write button to create the bootable ISO.
I have googled this and havent found such an application
What I was asking is if there is a debian package that has a GUI to make it much simpler to create bootable USBs without typing risky terminal commands.As I said openSUSE has imagewriter where one simply drags the iso onto the imagewriter GUI and clicks write button to create the bootable ISO.
I have googled this and havent found such an application
Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
But how could we know, you didn't mention that?4joeyirosh1 wrote:I am aware one can already use commands such as dd to create bootable USB.
I searched the forum.
See if any of these forum threads have something you can use.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... sb#p584070
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... sb#p578025
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... sb#p660670
Personally I use dd, I'm "oldschool", but maybe something mentioned in one those threads might be what you want
[edit] I also found:
https://github.com/resin-io/etcher#debi ... nux-x86x64
And gnome-multi-writer, if you use Gnome, maybe it would do just one at a time.
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
Sounds complicated, where the 'dd' command is very simple. In any event,.As I said openSUSE has imagewriter where one simply drags the iso onto the imagewriter GUI and clicks write button to create the bootable ISO.
I have never seen any thing like that for Debian, but then again, I never looked ,.. Why complicate things with a GUI, when the command is simple ?
As far as I know there is nothing like that for Debian, probably because no body has ever felt any need for it.
I don't know about Opensuse, but if the packages are open source, and the source code is available, one could maybe get the source code and compile it
for Debian ( or any other linux distro), but again seems like a lot of trouble, and work , for something that is not even necessary.
P.S. I have heard that the 'cp' command can be used as well, if the 'dd' command scares you to much.
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Some what off topic, but ... I remember my first "bootable" usb stick, I made it using a "FreeDos" ISO, ... I had this lap top that had no CD?DVD optical drive, so it occured to me making a bootable USB drive would be usefull, ... at that time I had no internet connection at home, so any way, the next day after work , on my way home I stopped off at a internet cafe, and used one of their computers to do some searches. The results were not encouraging at all, in fact most of them claimed it was not possible. And certainly there were no "GUI" programs available, not even for windows, yet.... However there was a fair amount of info , on various attempts, etc,... so any way I had the guy at the internet cafe print some of it for me, on paper, and the rest I stored on a usb stick I had.
The biggest problem I had was that at the time FreeDos, still did not really have any usb support, but again I did find some experimental drivers, that somebody (I forget who), was working on, and managed to get my Freedos installation supporting usb devices,... I could plug in my usb stick, and actually read,write, and execute files to and from it.
Shortly after , I managed to create one that would boot, and had Freedos on it, so any way, I was excited, and wanted to share what I had done, with others.
By now several weeks had gone by, and to my surprise, all the sites I had used to gather my information had new announcements, from others that had also finally had success at making a bootable usb stick from a iso,... About a month later, a few started coming up with GUI's, supposedly to make it easier,
but to be honest, most did not work all that well, and none made it any simpler or easier. Just saying.
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
Gnome-disks.
Lots of choices from outside the repo, too. Even ddrescue-gui can do it.
Lots of choices from outside the repo, too. Even ddrescue-gui can do it.
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
I think one reason this hasn't been widely implemented, for instance through file managers, is that doing things this way through a GUI would make it very easy for someone to trash a device. For instance the device with your entire os and all your data on it.
I think doing this through a GUI by drag and drop is more risky than terminal, not less.
I think doing this through a GUI by drag and drop is more risky than terminal, not less.
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
Yup--and it protects the beginner from formatting and installing to a hard drive instead of the target USB stick, too.arochester wrote:
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
Thanks.Etcher works perfectly when creating bootable USB from Linux ISOs.However,if I try to create a bootable USB from a Windows ISO I get message belowstevepusser wrote:Yup--and it protects the beginner from formatting and installing to a hard drive instead of the target USB stick, too.arochester wrote:
It looks like you are trying to burn a windows image
Unlike other images,Windows images require special processing to be made bootable.We suggest you use a tool specially designed for this purpose such as Rufus (Windows) or Boot Camp Assistant (macOS)
Is there a workaround to this?
Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
There isn't, the only "GUI" way afaik is to use WoeUSB. (was a pain in ass lately to compile for me)
https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB
Second way non GUI is from what i remember formatting USB to GPT and FAT32 (if you want UEFI) and copying files from .ISO to USB manually.
https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB
Second way non GUI is from what i remember formatting USB to GPT and FAT32 (if you want UEFI) and copying files from .ISO to USB manually.
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
No, dd does not create a bootable USB from any ISO image. It creates a bootable USB from a bootable disk image or a bootable hybrid image (which is the combination of ISO and disk image), not from a plain bootable ISO image.pawRoot wrote:yes, it's called dd
The boot scheme of a plain ISO image (El Torito) is not compatible with the boot scheme of a disk or USB device.
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Re: Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
I finally hacked it.I used an aaplication called woeUSB obtained from github repository on link https://github.com/slacka/WoeUSB#settin ... ion-string and was able to create a bootable Windows USB and installed Windows on another machine.
Re: [SOLVED]Debian package to create bootable USB from ISO
I can still see this post on my computer,some free or fee tutorials/tools of creating bootable USB can be browsed on Google(Youtube).
http://www.isotousb.com/
https://www.iseepassword.com/how-to-mak ... drive.html
https://unetbootin.github.io/
http://www.isotousb.com/
https://www.iseepassword.com/how-to-mak ... drive.html
https://unetbootin.github.io/