Sometimes Unetbootin doesn't work and leaves things on the drive behind.
Using the dd command is very useful and only takes a few minutes.
First execute; as root, fdisk -l to find out what drive the flash drive is.
I'll use /dev/sdg as an example.
To reformat run as root:
Unmount the drive:
Than to write the .iso to the flash drive run:
Wait for the terminal to return to the Bash prompt than your done.
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Now in some cases there will be 2 partitions and you would have to reformat each one ex:)
Also; if a distributions .iso is 5 GB's or more your have to change your string to 512M like so:
:hattip:
Using the dd command is very useful and only takes a few minutes.
First execute; as root, fdisk -l to find out what drive the flash drive is.
I'll use /dev/sdg as an example.
To reformat run as root:
Code:
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdg -I
Code:
umount /dev/sdg
Code:
dd bs=4M if=path/to/.iso of=/dev/sdg && sync
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Now in some cases there will be 2 partitions and you would have to reformat each one ex:)
Code:
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdg1 -I mkfs.vfat /dev/sdg2 -I
Code:
dd bs=512M if=path/to/.iso of=/dev/sdg && sync
