The ISO-9660 file system was originally intended for CD-ROMs (note "ROM": Read Only Media). It is was designed as a writable file system. I have no idea what Unetbootin is doing, but it obviously NOT directly copying the ISO-9660 disk image to the flash drive.
There is no reason to make the ISO boot image itself writable. If you want to create a self-contained bootable Linux system on a flash drive and use it as a rwad/write Linux system, that is something else. At Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:15:15 +0200 [email protected] wrote: > > Hi list, > > does someone know, why when writing an ISO-file with the tool "dd" to an USB- > stick, this stick can not be mounted writable? Tricks like "remount rw" or > similar do not work? > > On the other hand, when I am writing the same ISO-image to the stick by using > Unetbootin, the files on the stick are writable. > > What did I miss? It looks, Unetbootin (and I believe BalenaEtcher, too) are > working other than dd. > > Is there an option, using dd and let the stick writable iIn case, I want to > edit some files, like syslinux.cfg, grub.cfg or similar)? > > Thanks for enlightening me. > > Best > > Hans > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > FreeMail powered by mail.de - MEHR SICHERHEIT, SERIOSITÃÂT UND KOMFORT > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
