[Nottingham] bootable cd to flash drive/sd card

[Matthew Tompsett]

It is possible, but it's much easier just to use the UNetbootin tool. That
basically makes a bootable flash drive/sd card from a linux iso
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ no need to mess about with dd which could
damage your system if you aren't careful.
Matt

2009/10/20 Tony Shaw <skullduggery141 at nsworld.com>

> Hi everyone,
> I was wondering if it is possible to use the DD command to write a
> bootable cd to flash drive/sd card. If so would the then flash drive/sd
> card allow me to boot of it, as a friend of mines laptops dvd drive has
> up and died so we need a way of installing Linux on to it with out using
> a cd/dvd. The laptop has both usb ports and an sd card slot, the bios
> says that it should  be able to boot from a flashdrive. Thanks for any
> help you may give on this matter.
>
> Tony Shaw.
>
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