[Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

Sergey Balbeko m0s at al.en.cx
Thu Apr 28 12:45:04 CEST 2011


Hello

And why not ot push 'unetbootin' tool to the repo and provide a
step-by-step how-to how to create a bootable flash using it?
btw, you are right - to make a flash bootable - you finally need to
set bootable flag using fdisk/cfdisk/similar-tools

wbr, Sergey

2011/4/28 David Sjölin <david.sjolin at gmail.com>:
> Hello!
>
> I remember that when I created a usb from ISO I had some strange
> problem making the USB bootable. Maybe some comment on how to do that?
> I don't remember how I did it then, but I assume using fdisk or
> something? Dismount the USB, fidks /dev/sdb1 (or whatever it could be
> on the users computer) and change the bootable flag (?). And a comment
> on how to find the device for the USB.
>
> Other than that this looks like a good design.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>


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