Using XFCE.
When I tried to burn a particular .iso to a USB using Suse Studio Imagewriter it reported
Sorry, I can't write this ISO. You need to use another program to write it to a DVD.
But Rufus running under Windows 10 succeeds producing a bootable USB. I don’t like to have to boot Windows to get it done. Is there an equivalent for Linux? I tried Rufus using wine but it failed to recognise the output USB.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
We use the ‘dd’ command.
Impression seems to work well, if you’re not interested in using dd.
multiwriter worked for me well
Check Ventoy.
Don’t use ventoy for openSUSE Distribution installation. Otherwise, yes, ventoy is a nice tool.
I have used dd on occasion and it has always worked with Linux generated .isos. With this particular .iso it produced a usb that would not boot after asking for a keypress to boot from a DVD drive which does not exist.
I then booted windows and used Rufus on the same USB stick. It booted just fine.
Is Impression a graphical interface based on dd?
I have no idea what underlying technology Impression uses. I’ve never looked into it.
I’ll try it next time.
That provides zero information. Rufus can do different things depending on the settings. If you explain what exactly you did, someone may know a Linux tool to do the same.
You apparently have some very secret ISO as you avoid telling us what is it. In this case all that is left is guesswork.
you missed apparently that Ventoy is strongly advised against here in many places .
No secret. It’s the free (and legal) Windows 10 iso downloaded from the Microsoft web site and burned with Rufus running under Windows. The default options (burn an iso file) worked. It recognised the inserted USB and asked for the iso file. The same process using Suse Studio Imagewriter resulted in a USB that kept asking for a DVD drive which I don’t have. Obviously not the same. It’s not really a problem since I did get Windows 10 installed and running, I just prefer to use Linux to burn USB’s. By the way my file browser did indicate that I should use Brasero to open it, suggesting (to me) that it contains a DVD file structure.
you missed apparently that Ventoy is strongly advised against here in many places .
One does not “burn” USB mass-storage devices. That will destroy them (and smell awfully).
One simply copies the so called “ISO file” (which is in fact a copy on a file of a complete ISO 9660 file system) to the USB device, where it then again is a the ISO 9660 file system it once was.
Because that “ISO file” was made by copying byte for byte from the original file system, the restore should also be done byte for byte. When one (like you and like me) then prefers Unix/Linux for doing this then there is for ~50 years the tool dd . Simple.
Windows 10 ISO is not hybrid and cannot be used directly to boot from USB. What Rufus (or the own Windows tool) does, is to simply copy the content of ISO to the normal filesystem on USB. For UEFI there is nothing else to do. For legacy BIOS you also need to install appropriate bootloader. I am sure that if you search how to create Windows installation USB on Linux it will come with a lot of hits.
I like Ventoy, too. And so far, it has always worked. Why not to use for installation? What is the matter then?
From another source, these are not “my words”
Let’s see.. first Ventoy rewrites the cmdline used by the installer
- this undermines any hope of using measured boot, as cmdline is a protected attribute needed to be cryptographically verified to protect your boot
- it breaks SELinux or AppArmor
- it breaks zypper by confusing YaST into thinking the Ventoy stick is a repo, not an installer
- it breaks any legitimate alteration of the kernel cmdline for handling drivers or other system mandatory adjustments we need to support
In short - it dicks around with stuff it has no right to, causes endless cases of people screaming about “openSUSE is broken” on the internet
Lots of people have successfully used Leap/Tumbleweed images with ventoy to successfully install them, but it’s not consistent, I can’t predict which user will be successful, and which won’t, but it happens often enough, that I feel safe saying that ventoy is not a method to be recommended, for installing any openSUSE Distribution.
As usual, you can do whatever you like, nobody is stopping you.
For further information, this is just from a couple days ago.
Using XFCE.
Even though I have installed Windows 10 successfully using Rufus, I went back to the start and used dd to copy to the same USB.
dd if=/home/ion/DATA/OS/Win10_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=5M status=progress
At boot I ran into the same problem as with Suse Studio Imagewriter. It asked me for a DVD drive and reported…
A media driver your computer needs is missing, This could be a DVD, USB or Hard disk driver.
Now I am not trying to install Windows 10. It’s done. All I asked was if there is an equivalent to Rufus. Looks like there isn’t. Using dd or Suse Studio Imagewriter does not produce the same results as Rufus.
I used to use Fedora media writer with flatpak. Unfortunately, flatpak is very heavy and I abandoned it. Then I discovered the duo SUSE imagewriter and imageburner and I have always been satisfied.
Try Balena Etcher