On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 -0400, Will Tomlinson wrote:

> # dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096
> # sync
> 
> You don't have to mount the USB drive. Use sync to ensure that all the
> data has actually been written to the device before you remove it.

The ISO image has to be created as a "hybrid" image for this to work. Use
isohybrid from syslinux to convert non-hybrid images. You can easily test
if an ISO image is hybrid with fdisk -l, if it shows a partition table
the image is hybrid.


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Neil Bothwick

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