Subj : ISO burning program
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun May 04 2025 19:49:20

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