I understand that one can easily make a bootable USB from a live CD installer. But instead of burning a DVD, I’d like to make a bootable USB from the oss 11.3 DVD iso file. Note: I just want to make a bootable USB, not to install 11.3 on USB. ( There are many reasons to do that, e.g., USB is much easier to carry, and also reuse later for new versions. ) But it seems there is no instruction to do that. Any help? Thanks in advance.
( BTW, I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and OSS 11.2 ).
I have not tried it myself, but I would think you could mount the iso directly in linux and follow the instructions from there just like you mounted a CD. Here’s a link to mount the iso image.
Thanks. But would you do after mounting the iso? Here I need a USB that is totally equivalent to a DVD, which can boot any machine. The Live CD instruction just copies everything to a USB using dd, which I don’t think would work, as the DVD version is not designed for this purpose.
I do not understand why you think that a dd copy would not work in this case. It is in fact the same, an ISO file system is copied block ny block (dd does nor know anything about the contents).
Maybe these instructions will help…
Has anyone gotten this to work with 11.3 64bit dvd?
I tried the instructions in udaman’s link but can’t make the stick boot.
On 2010-11-03 20:36, Ski K2 wrote:
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> Has anyone gotten this to work with 11.3 64bit dvd?
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> I tried the instructions in udaman’s link but can’t make the stick
> boot.
You can not make a bootable USB from the DVD, it is not a live install.
You might succeed in creating a USB stick valid for creating installs,
same as if you plug the DVD in a reader.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Perhaps my post was unclear.
Making a bootable USB stick from the DVD image iso to install from is exactly what I am trying to do.
I’ve done this quite easily with the Live CD image iso’s using Imagewrite from gui.
Live CD installs take an hour or two longer than a DVD install for me because many packages must be downloaded from the web because they are not contained on the CD.
Netbooks and Tablets are becoming so popular and these devices lack CD/DVD. In fact I predict CD/DVD will become obsolete very soon.
Network installs are agonizingly SLOW, even on moderately fast connections!
Bootable USB installation DVD iso’s are seriously needed!
If you want to make a bootable USB stick from a DVD version use this tool UNetbootin. I have not tried it out yet but I’m running it on openSUSE 11.2 it’s in the main repo.
Thanks Brad I’ll have a look at it.
Ski search Youtube and you will find some tuts on the tool. Looks to me to be very easy. One of the things I like about it, is you can use the ISO on your hard drive.
Thanks.
Got it burning now.
Pretty slow stick 
I’ll let you know if it works.
Looks pretty straight forward.
Maybe my problem is the format of the stick. It is ext4.
As a last resort I read the unetbootin docs and it says fat32.
I’ll reformat and see if that helps.
Still no joy 
After re-formatting the stick to fat32 unebootin would not detect the stick.
I could mount fine and move data back and forth to the stick using dolphin.
I finally rebooted out of frustration, bu that helped !
Fired up unetbootin and it detected the stick and did it’s thing without error.
The gui is still a bit flackey in KDE 64 bit version.
When I boot from the stick I get the unetbootin text menu but the default boot options gives a bad kernel error.
???
Please share your experience if any body is successfully able to create USB bootable DVD. As CD and DVD drives will soon become obsolete.rotfl!
Hi, welcome.
You reopened a very old thread, which IMHO doesn’t give you much of a chance. Creating USB media from downloaded ISO’s is well described on the links available at the download page.