How to install (non-Puppy) ISO on USB drive?
How to install (non-Puppy) ISO on USB drive?
OK, here's the deal.
I'm running Puppy from a USB drive already, so I'm not a complete idiot, at least in that regard. I have an additional OS (Backtrack 3 final) I'm trying to install to a second USB drive. This is an ISO file, and needs to be extracted in order to make it bootable.
I have a cold this week, so thinking doesn't seem to be my strong suit. Would someone mind cluing me in, please?
TIA
I'm running Puppy from a USB drive already, so I'm not a complete idiot, at least in that regard. I have an additional OS (Backtrack 3 final) I'm trying to install to a second USB drive. This is an ISO file, and needs to be extracted in order to make it bootable.
I have a cold this week, so thinking doesn't seem to be my strong suit. Would someone mind cluing me in, please?
TIA
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What OS are you trying to install onto the second drive? Does the OS you're trying to install natively support installing to a flash drive, as in Puppy? If not, you might want to try something called UNetbootin. I've seen it used a lot for flash based installs; however, I've never used it myself as I run Puppy as my primary OS and it makes flash installations very easy out of the box.
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At this point, it sounds like there is a problem with their code or it just doesn't like your hardware. Only ideas I have are to try a different repository, a different PC, or try again on their forum. Does the live CD give any error messages or does it fail to be recognized completely? You might plug those into google and see what comes up.
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Yeah, the whole thing was a little weird. I used the Puppy program once and the slick ISO burning program I got for free for Vista when I started looking at Linux again (it had been a few years), twice. Nothing worked. Must have been a bad download, like it suggested. I really didn't think that was possible, what with packet verification being what it has become since everyone seems to have broadband now.Flash wrote:52degrees, what program did you use to burn the disk iso to CD? Try Puppy's Burniso2cd, and a rewritable CD or DVD if you can.
Yeah. I'm cool like that. [/joking]Flash wrote:And thank you for not telling us how you got it to work.
Extracted ISO to file on desktop, drag and drop to USB drive, open "boot" file (the smaller of the two), doubleclick the obvious (so obvious I don't remember what it was named) file and follow the commands. It warns that it will format the (remainder of the) drive and also the impending doom of the missile strike headed for your (hopefully spoofed) IP address location, then press the "any" key a couple of times and reboot.
Pretty slick, but I didn't care for all the boot options it gave me.
I chose the one that looked like it had the smallest chance of trashing Vista on my laptop, since I do like to watch Netflix and don't want to irritate my wife any more than I do by merely breathing crosseyed...