Re: bootable USB drive creation

2016-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/2016 10:35 AM, Matyas A. Sustik wrote: > I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as > an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, > I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from. > > My search turned up resource

Re: bootable USB drive creation

2016-10-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/26/2016 1:57 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as > >>an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, > >>I hoped I could use a US

Re: bootable USB drive creation

2016-10-26 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/26/2016 1:57 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from. I would try `grub-imageboot`: put the

Re: bootable USB drive creation

2016-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as > an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, > I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from. I would try `grub-imageboot`: put the .iso into /boot/images/ then update-grub,

Re: bootable USB drive creation

2016-10-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Matyas A. Sustik wrote: > I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as > an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, > I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from. It depends much on the entrails of the ISO and its

Re: bootable USB drive creation

2016-10-26 Thread Børge Holen
I never had smart report an error witch did not turn serious in a short matter of time. nope dd does not work like that from cd to usb mount cdrom make usb bootable copy content from mountpoint to mountpoint On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Matyas A. Sustik wrote: > I need to boot into a hard dr

bootable USB drive creation

2016-10-26 Thread Matyas A. Sustik
I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from. My search turned up resources on this, but it seems the answers were about booting a L