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How to create a bootable USB from a bootable ISO with the command line on Linux?

I have a CD that's created from an ISO file which I use to install a custom version of Ubuntu via plop linux. The cd works fine but I'd like to use a bootable USB drive instead. I used the command dd to try and create the bootable USB: dd…
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Create Windows 10 USB installation drive with Linux only

By udisk, I mean a 2.5 inch HDD placed in an External Hard Drive Enclosure I'm quite familiar (not professional, daily use only) with Linux (Arch&Ubuntu) but newbie to Windows. Sometimes I accidentally kill my Windows installation with some silly…
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Multiboot DVD with live-cds?

How can I create a multi bootable (with menu) cd/dvd that contains a number of live cds? Is there any "easy" way of doing this? Isolinux is the way to go I guess, but is there any tool available for this?
EvanAlm
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Booting win8 install iso with isolinux and grub

Can someone please help? I've been googling for hours now and I can't figure out why I can't boot the win8 install disc iso from my isolinux boot usb. I can boot winpe 64bit with the following label pe menu label winpe LINUX /bootprog/grub.exe…
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How to use Syslinux to chainload Ubuntu installation?

I try my best to detail my question. If it would run out of your patience, go to lastest paragraph. I downloaded Ubuntu 13.04 from its official site and extracted files to a folder ubuntu\ on USB stick( Z: for example). So files are now in…
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How to make Slitaz USB persistent

I installed Slitaz on a USB pendrive. However I can't figure out how to make it persistent automatically. There are different sources telling me different ways to make it persistent. One told me to add slitaz home=usb to the syslinux.cfg file like…
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How to make ISOLINUX loaded RAMDisk writeable?

I'm currently using ISOLINUX to create a bootable MS-DOS 6.22 image in the RAM. This is working pretty well! I can stuff the folders CDROOT and isolinux in this setup and then create a new ISO with an included BATCH file, which I then use on a…
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Creating a bootable Linux USB key from Haiku

Note: Usually a question about Haiku would be the opposite--creating a bootable Haiku USB key from Linux or perhaps Windows--but since I have Haiku running and not Linux, I do actually mean what is in the title. I did this (without the USB key…
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How to transfer a USB bootable ubuntu system to a bootable DVD

I've built a USB bootable 1.5G system derived from Ubuntu core (along the lines of this example). It boots using syslinux on most of our Intel hardware. Intel iMacs are an exception (grub EFI with GPT or MBR partitions boot only sometimes and only…
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Make isolinux 4.0.3 chainload itself

I have a bootable iso which boots into isolinux 4.0.3 and I want to make it chainload itself (my actual goal is to chainload isolinux.bin v4.0.1-debian, which should start up the Ubuntu10.10 Live CD, but for now I just want to make it chainload…
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Why do Linux distros use both the grub and syslinux bootloaders?

Whenever I open a Linux distro iso file there is always a grub and an isolinux bootloader, I realized they use isolinux to boot the installation. Can't we use grub for that? is isolinux faster and better for installation?
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ISOLINUX: the slightest change to the configuration stops the CD booting

I'm building a bootable Gentoo Linux disk, using isolinux. (It's actually a customised sysrescuecd but I don't think the details of that utility are relevant to my problem). I wish to customise isolinux.cfg to include various site-specific things,…
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Modifying the install environment for RH-like installations

I am trying to modify the basic installation environment (ie, what Anaconda runs in) for a customized CentOS distribution. For the first try, I would just like to modify a few of the splash images. My initial attempt to do this entailed: 1) Mount…
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Windows/Linux Bootdisk ISO

I am currently producing a bootdisk (similar to Medicat) that will boot live/installer linux and windows PE/install. I have managed to get bootmgr to load on the ISO but it says boot/BCD is missing. Is there a way to load BCD from alternate…
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Dynamic SYSLINUX menu?

Is it possible to have a menu in SYSLINUX that will automatically list all of the files in a given directory and allow the user to choose one to boot from as a kernel?
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