Richard Owlett wrote: > Currently I use >> dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb > > I would like way to copy it such that: > 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it > 2. Gparted would not complain about block size > 3. there would be at least two partitions usable misc files
one of the nice people here posted a program for doing this called make_isombr_part (or something similar). see if you can find it. archive search for this group Feb-Mar 2017. i have two versions of it now, but it was a five years ago and i don't recall if i made the changes or got a new version from the author. :) my somewhat incomplete notes look like: ===== This program makes the rest of a USB stick available to create another partition after you put an ISO image on a USB stick. the whole thing goes like: 1. download netinst, or some other ISO image 2. cp it to the USB stick (to the whole device) example: (check for right device before clobbering) # cp /home/me/IWDownloads/debian-stretch-DI-rc2-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sd<X> 3. add boot loader (syslinux) 4. make isombr partition usage: ./make_isombr_part /dev/sd<X> auto 83 dry_run remove dry_run when you actually want the changes to be made. 5. create file system on what remains # mkfs.ext4 -v -b 2048 -L FD02 /dev/sd<x><partition_number> ===== songbird
