Re: Bootable USB and a Windows ISO-file

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On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
> > I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from microsoft.com
> > that I
> > put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical
> > machine,
> > but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu,
> > but
> > it won't boot.
> > 
> > I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went
> > fine.
> > I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two
> > different
> > USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
> 
> Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
> 
> Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media?  Anyway, I would
> just 
> use dd to write it to the flash drive.
> 
> In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
> sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress

Same result.

Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file. No
problem.
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