Making a USB bootdisk...

[cliff here]

Well part of this exercise, is I want to know what makes a linux iso differ
from that of a windows iso, which is probably something in the boot sector.

I guess I could make a Virtual machine with my windows ISO and then make a
windows USB boot disk from there.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:23 AM, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. <forum at lemcoe.com>wrote:

> If you have access to a Windows PC, there is a Windows tool that is
> perfect for putting Windows ISOs onto USB drives. I have used it many
> times in my line of work and it is perfect for installing Windows 7 if
> you have the ISO.
>
> http://wudt.codeplex.com/
>
> Enjoy.
>
> David
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:44 AM, cliff here <c4ifford at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Don't have a windows platform to use currently. And fedora's liveusb
> > creator keeps crashing unfortunately. The method of making a windows disk
> > IN linux seems rather obscure, which is why I wanted to make sure it was
> > possible.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:46 AM, white.heron white <
> white.heron at yahoo.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Cliff,
> >>
> >> For your information, you may proceed the following steps to make
> bootable
> >> usb pendrive:
> >>
> >> 1) Download LiveUSB creator for Windows platform.
> >> 2) Install and run LiveUSB Creator (latest version 2.8.1)
> >> 3) Select USB Pendrive from LiveUSB Creator (latest version 2.8.1)
> >> software.
> >> 4) Select ISO image directories.
> >> 5) Select hidden file created and Run ISO image setup.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >>
> >> MOHAMMAD ADLI BIN MT TAJUDIN
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> >>
> >>
> >> H/p number:  (017) 362 3662
> >> Email: white.heron at yahoo.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: cliff here <c4ifford at gmail.com>
> >> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 10:26 AM
> >> Subject: Making a USB bootdisk...
> >>
> >> ... for windows.
> >>
> >> So I have been able to get a Fedora image or a rhel image on to my USB
> disk
> >> just by using dd to copy to the ISO to the disk. However I cannot use
> the
> >> same method to copy a windows ISO to the same disk and have it come out
> >> bootable. I only have a Fedora and RHEL boxes to work on currently. I
> have
> >> tried to with fedora liveusb creator and with unetbootin. Has anyone
> ever
> >> gotten this to work?
> >>
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