My daughter gave me her alienware laptop.
I want to burn a slackware iso to a usb drive.
All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
any recommendations?

Would I be able to just copy the dvd that i have already to the usb drive on another pc, this one doesnt have a dvd player.

TIA

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Re: ISO burning program
By: Bogomips to All on Sun May 04 2025 05:58 pm

My daughter gave me her alienware laptop.
I want to burn a slackware iso to a usb drive.
All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
any recommendations?

For Windows? Usually the built support for formatting the USB drive works then Windows has built-in support for opening an ISO image with the file explorer which you can then just copy all the files from the ISO to the USB drive with.

Would I be able to just copy the dvd that i have already to the usb drive on another pc, this one doesnt have a dvd player.

You're talking about the Slackware installation ISO? Don't they normally have instructions for how to create a bootable USB stick for installing the OS (e.g. what file system, FAT32, GPT or MBR boot record, etc.)? I don't recall needing any 3rd party software to do that.
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Re: ISO burning program
By: Digital Man to Bogomips on Sun May 04 2025 06:07 pm

My daughter gave me her alienware laptop. I want to burn a slackware iso to
a usb drive. All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
any recommendations?

For Windows? Usually the built support for formatting the USB drive works then Windows has built-in support for opening an ISO image with the file explorer which you can then just copy all the files from the ISO to the USB drive with.

If the USB drive is to be OS install media, it would need to be bootable, and I don't think simply copying the files would make it bootable, would it?

You're talking about the Slackware installation ISO? Don't they normally have instructions for how to create a bootable USB stick for installing the OS (e.g. what file system, FAT32, GPT or MBR boot record, etc.)? I don't recall needing any 3rd party software to do that.

I've typically used a 3rd-party program for that (such as Rufus), as the USB drive needs to be made bootable when writing an OS ISO.. I don't know of a built-in Windows tool that can do that, though I haven't actually checked to see if recent versions of Windows come with one.

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Re: ISO burning program
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sun May 04 2025 07:11 pm

Re: ISO burning program
By: Digital Man to Bogomips on Sun May 04 2025 06:07 pm

My daughter gave me her alienware laptop. I want to burn a slackware iso to
a usb drive. All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
any recommendations?

For Windows? Usually the built support for formatting the USB drive works then Windows has built-in support for opening an ISO image with the file explorer which you can then just copy all the files from the ISO to the USB drive with.

If the USB drive is to be OS install media, it would need to be bootable, and I don't think simply copying the files would make it bootable, would it?

If it's a bootable partition, yes, but that might require more advanced Windows tools (Disk Manager?) to create the right parition type before formatting. I think it's doable with standard Windows tools, but I suppose I could be wrong. Pretty sure I'd done this exact thing for install Debian Linux multiple times.
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Re: ISO burning program
By: Bogomips to All on Sun May 04 2025 05:58 pm

My daughter gave me her alienware laptop.
I want to burn a slackware iso to a usb drive.
All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
any recommendations?

Would I be able to just copy the dvd that i have already to the usb drive on another pc, this one doesnt have a dvd player.

i would recommend you just do it correctly.
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Re: ISO burning program
By: Digital Man to Bogomips on Sun May 04 2025 06:07 pm

any recommendations?

For Windows? Usually the built support for formatting the USB drive works then Windows has built-in support for opening an ISO image with the file explorer which you can then just copy all the files from the ISO to the USB drive with.

he probably can just use rufus.
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Re: ISO burning program
By: Bogomips to All on Sun May 04 2025 17:58:29

I want to burn a slackware iso to a usb drive.
any recommendations?

You need to convert the ISO file to bootable media, either a USB drive or CD. Two popular programs to do this are Rufus and Etcher. I've used both on Windows 10 and are simple to run. Just make sure whatever you go with DL it from the author's website so you don't get an infected phony.

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On Sun, 4 May 2025 17:58:29 -0700
"Bogomips" (VERT) <VERT!Bogomips@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

My daughter gave me her alienware laptop.
I want to burn a slackware iso to a usb drive.
All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
any recommendations?

Would I be able to just copy the dvd that i have already to the usb
drive on another pc, this one doesnt have a dvd player.

You can't just copy the DVD since the USB stick would need a MBR setup
and stuff.

For Windows, Rufus is the only tool you'll need. It will burn an ISO
for you. Just download the latest version, always best, and then use
Rufus to write ti to the USB drive.


https://rufus.ie/en/
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Re: ISO burning program
By: Digital Man to Bogomips on Sun May 04 2025 06:07 pm

For Windows? Usually the built support for formatting the USB drive works then Windows has built-in support for opening an ISO image with the file explorer which you can then just copy all the files from the ISO to the USB drive with.

You're talking about the Slackware installation ISO? Don't they normally have instructions for how to create a bootable USB stick for installing the OS (e.g. what file system, FAT32, GPT or MBR boot record, etc.)? I don't recall needing any 3rd party software to do that.

I'm probably overthinking the whole thing. I'll try windows disk program, read the slackware sight. Also, I downloaded the .iso to the slackware laptop and will try dd

I went online and searched for iso to usb which led me to all the third party programs.

Thank you

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Bogomips wrote to Digital Man <=-

You're talking about the Slackware installation ISO? Don't they normally have instructions for how to create a bootable USB stick for installing the OS (e.g. what file system, FAT32, GPT or MBR boot record, etc.)? I don't recall needing any 3rd party software to do that.

I'm probably overthinking the whole thing. I'll try windows disk
program, read the slackware sight. Also, I downloaded the .iso to the slackware laptop and will try dd

I went online and searched for iso to usb which led me to all the third party programs.

As you said, if it's on a Linux machine already, just use dd.

The command would be: dd bs=4M if=<iso_name> of=<target_drive>

The "of" would be something like: /dev/sdb or dev/mmc0blk1 or similar.
Be very careful you put the correct one or you could overwrite a drive
you didn't want to. You'll need to be the root user, or use 'sudo'.

Simple and works every time.



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Re: ISO burning program
By: Bogomips to All on Sun May 04 2025 05:58 pm

My daughter gave me her alienware laptop.
I want to burn a slackware iso to a usb drive.
All the free programs i found online are not working for me.
any recommendations?

Would I be able to just copy the dvd that i have already to the usb drive on another pc, this one doesnt have a dvd player.

TIA

I think the Slakcware ISO file is an hybrid image that can be used to create a bootable USB drive directly.

You could just use some version of dd for Windows in order to copy the ISO directly into the USB drive.

If that does not cut it then I guess you could use Unetbooting to transfer the Slackware ISO into the USB drive.

Definitively, just copying the files from the ISO into the pendrive won't work unless you set up a bootloader manually for the pendrive, which is more trouble than it is worth if you are asking for help with this.


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Mortar wrote to Bogomips <=-

You need to convert the ISO file to bootable media, either a USB drive
or CD. Two popular programs to do this are Rufus and Etcher. I've
used both on Windows 10 and are simple to run. Just make sure whatever you go with DL it from the author's website so you don't get an
infected phony.

Side note: I bought a new car this weekend, and the audio system only
supports FAT32 drives. My old car supported exFAT, so I needed to
reformat the drive. Windows will only format 32 GB or smaller without
going through the CLI, so I looked for a handful of SD card formatter
programs.

I did some reading, and found out that Rufus will format Fat32 just fine
- you select "non-bootable" as the boot selection and it'll format it
just fine.

That's one less program to have to install...



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Re: Re: ISO burning program
By: nelgin to All on Mon May 05 2025 04:09 am

You can't just copy the DVD since the USB stick would need a MBR setup
and stuff.

For Windows, Rufus is the only tool you'll need. It will burn an ISO
for you. Just download the latest version, always best, and then use
Rufus to write ti to the USB drive.

bootsect /nt60 [drive letter]:
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Re: Re: ISO burning program
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Mon May 05 2025 08:29 am

Side note: I bought a new car this weekend, and the audio system only supports FAT32 drives. My old car supported exFAT, so I needed to
reformat the drive. Windows will only format 32 GB or smaller without
going through the CLI, so I looked for a handful of SD card formatter programs.

I did some reading, and found out that Rufus will format Fat32 just fine
- you select "non-bootable" as the boot selection and it'll format it
just fine.

That's one less program to have to install...

you can put it in a sd card reader and format it however.
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Re: Re: ISO burning program
By: MRO to nelgin on Mon May 05 2025 02:19 pm

For Windows, Rufus is the only tool you'll need. It will burn an ISO for
you. Just download the latest version, always best, and then use Rufus to
write ti to the USB drive.

bootsect /nt60 [drive letter]:

The original person asking about this said he wanted to write a Linux ISO to a USB flash drive. It looks like bootsect /nt60 would require the OS to be Windows..

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Re: Re: ISO burning program
By: Gamgee to Bogomips on Mon May 05 2025 08:11 am

As you said, if it's on a Linux machine already, just use dd.

The command would be: dd bs=4M if=<iso_name> of=<target_drive>

The "of" would be something like: /dev/sdb or dev/mmc0blk1 or similar.
Be very careful you put the correct one or you could overwrite a drive
you didn't want to. You'll need to be the root user, or use 'sudo'.

Simple and works every time.

I have an old legacy machine with linux only that i was going to create the usb stick with if all else failed.

Was able to use Rufus to create the usb stick in windows, but ran into other issues during install to have a dual boot system.

The issues seem to be with RAID and not being able to see the D: drive which is where I want to install Slackware.

Ive Disabled RAID in the Bios, but teh machine wouldn't start.

I partitione the C: drive during setup with cfdisk and installed Slack but the machine wouldn't start and the diagnostics eventually had me reinstall windows.

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Arelor wrote to Bogomips <=-

You could just use some version of dd for Windows in order to copy the
ISO directly into the USB drive.

Rufus has become my goto tool for creating USB bootable drives under
Windows - and also, recently, formatting a 128 gb USB drive as FAT32,
which windows wouldn't do...

https://rufus.ie/en/


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