> HGST provides an ISO meant for burning to CD, and an IMG meant for > burning to floppy disk. I don't have writable CDs or a floppy drive, so > I'm trying to get the software to run off a USB flash drive. I've tried > so many different things and wasted so much time, but have still not > succeeded:
Have you tried the simple trick of using `grub-imageboot`? I.e. after installing the package, put the .iso file into /boot/images and dong `update-grub`. It's bit hit or miss for me (used it for Thinkpad BIOS upgrades), but I always managed to make it work in the end (sometimes after cobbling up my own .iso out of various other .iso, not knowing quite what I was doing). Stefan