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  • Re: ISO burning program

    From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Bogomips on Monday, May 05, 2025 08:11:19
    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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  • From Bogomips@VERT to Gamgee on Tuesday, May 06, 2025 04:39:04
    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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