Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-06, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 09:54:52AM -, Curt wrote: >> I'm intervening here merely to point out that just because the user's >> external usb device is auto-mounted does not mean that said device >> cannot be unmounted by the usual methods (at least I have ye

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 09:54:52AM -, Curt wrote: > I'm intervening here merely to point out that just because the user's > external usb device is auto-mounted does not mean that said device > cannot be unmounted by the usual methods (at least I have yet to > encounter Greg Wooledge's auto-moun

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/05/2019 à 18:41, deloptes a écrit : Nicolas George wrote: That is absolutely not true. Partition data, UEFI or not, bootable or not, are just octets on a medium. They could be created with an Atari if Atari had USB plugs, that would not make any difference. The vague truth behind your st

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread mick crane
I've had success using http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ with various isos. Last time tho', installing Buster, the setup, after booting from the USB, was looking for a CD/DVD and so I had to use the USB to boot from and the CD/DVD in the player for the installation. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

RESOLVED: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:03:42AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 11:39:39AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Nonetheless, I do find "Disks" handy to identity the device associated > with a USB memory stick just plugged in, and to indicate at a glance > the partitioning a

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Joe
On Sat, 04 May 2019 18:41:18 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Nicolas George wrote: > > > That is absolutely not true. Partition data, UEFI or not, bootable > > or not, are just octets on a medium. They could be created with an > > Atari if Atari had USB plugs, that would not make any difference. > > >

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > That is absolutely not true. Partition data, UEFI or not, bootable or > not, are just octets on a medium. They could be created with an Atari if > Atari had USB plugs, that would not make any difference. > > The vague truth behind your statement is: > > To edit UEFI varia

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-04, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 05/03/2019 11:50 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The >> image is the Windows 10 installer ... which I downloaded from Microsoft, and >> which they claim should be able to be writ

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/03/2019 11:50 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hello I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The image is the Windows 10 installer ... which I downloaded from Microsoft, and which they claim should be able to be written to a USB device. ... What was the URL? I've just

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/05/2019 à 11:21, deloptes a écrit : Thomas Schmitt wrote: (A new thread would keep this one on topic.) I agree. Perhaps I should start another thread, but it is somehow in the context of this, because I was trying to setup UEFI bootable USB. No, it is a completely different topic.

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-04, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> > it auto-mounted. >> >> > So as root I did: >> > >> > cp /dev/sdf >> >> You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do t

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread An Liu
Hello, from my experience cp windows.iso /dev/sdf should work for windows version higher than win 7,and not work for xp What i usually do is the best following way rather tban cp or dd because it preserve my disk table ,i only need do rm (or not even you dont bother install media in root partitio

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > I was trying to setup UEFI bootable USB. All worked fine > until grub told me something I do not recall exactly at the moment, but > answers I found were pointing to the fact that you can not do grub > update/install of UEFI if you are not booted into UEFI. This is plausible

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The problem which you mention could be interesting, too. How about a > sketch of what you tried, what failed, and what succeeded ? > (A new thread would keep this one on topic.) Perhaps I should start another thread, but it is somehow in the context of this, because I was

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Nicolas George
deloptes (12019-05-04): > don't forget that to create UEFI bootable partition, you need to boot in > UEFI. That is absolutely not true. Partition data, UEFI or not, bootable or not, are just octets on a medium. They could be created with an Atari if Atari had USB plugs, that would not make any dif

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > don't forget that to create UEFI bootable partition, you need to boot in > UEFI. It does not work if you boot in legacy MBR - unfortunately - it took > me 1 day to find out :) I doubt that this applies to the situation of Mark Fletcher. The goal of the hack is not to create

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > So you could use a partition editor to create an MBR partition of type > "EF" which begins at 512-block 515 * 4 = 2060 and has 2,590,860 * 4 = > 10,363,440 blocks. > (The EFI image is probably smaller. But El Torito can mark only sizes > up to 32 MiB or unlimited size. Micr

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mark Fletcher wrote: > root@kazuki:/home/mark# xorriso -indev > ~mark/Downloads/Win10_1809Oct_v2_Japanese_x64.iso -report_system_area plain > -report_el_torito plain > ... > Media summary: 1 session, 2591375 data blocks, 5061m data, 631g free > Volume id: 'CCCOMA_X64FRE_JA-JP_DV9' > xorri

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 11:39:39AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: In Jessie and Stretch, gnome-disk-utility-3.22.1 (which labels itself "Disks") sometimes balks at the instructions I give it. But that is what happens when you use a GUI instead of the command line, and particularly when the utility

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > it auto-mounted. > > > So as root I did: > > > > cp /dev/sdf > > You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp. This may mean > you have to turn off yo

Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Any suggestions of what I could do to diagnose the problem? What do you get from this inspection run: xorriso -indev ...path.to.iso.image... \ -report_system_area plain \ -report_el_torito plain Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread john doe
On 5/3/2019 7:29 PM, Paul Sutton wrote: > > On 03/05/2019 18:24, James Medeiros wrote: >> I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if >> I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make >> sure your USB isn't mounted. >> >> dd if= of=/dev/sdf bs=8M >> >>

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Paul Sutton
On 03/05/2019 18:24, James Medeiros wrote: > I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if > I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make > sure your USB isn't mounted. > > dd if= of=/dev/sdf bs=8M > > > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Greg Wooledg

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread James Medeiros
I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make sure your USB isn't mounted. dd if= of=/dev/sdf bs=8M On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > it auto-mounted. > So as root I did: > > cp /dev/sdf You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp. This may mean you have to turn off your auto-mounter, or (better still) just log out of your Desktop Environment entir

Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The image is the Windows 10 installer (please don't flame me! It's part of an education project for my son!) which I downloaded from Microsoft, and which they claim should be able to be written to a USB device. Microsoft wo