Revision as of 06:14, 3 January 2022

Writing hybrid ISO images to boot media

It's not recommended to use UNetbootin, Rufus or UltraISO as these are too "smart" and actually cripple the resulting media to barely bootable or even unbootable state.

It is recommended to use the following utilities.

Optical media

Linux: K3b and similar frontends to cdrecord/growisofs
Windows: Nero BurningROM or similar

USB Flash drives

Linux: SUSE Studio Imagewriter (imagewriter package) or direct dd use
Windows: Win32 Disk Imager, HDD Raw Copy Tool and the likes

Please do care to doublecheck and select the proper target device or your hard drive might get overwritten!

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 == USB Flash drives ==
-* Linux: SUSE Studio Imagewriter (<tt>imagewriter</tt> package) or direct <tt>dd</tt> use
+* Linux: SUSE Studio Imagewriter (<tt>imagewriter</tt> package) or direct [[dd]] use
 * Windows: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/files/Archive/Win32DiskImager-0.9.5-binary.zip/download Win32 Disk Imager], [http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/ HDD Raw Copy Tool] and the likes