I never had smart report an error witch did not turn serious in a short matter of time. nope dd does not work like that from cd to usb mount cdrom make usb bootable copy content from mountpoint to mountpoint
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Matyas A. Sustik <msus...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as > an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, > I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from. > > My search turned up resources on this, but it seems the answers were about > booting a Linux rescue disk or such. > > I tried just to dd the iso to the usb drive (/dev/sdc) but that did not do > the trick. Was that supposed to work just like that? > > There is unetbootin, but I rather do not install more software until I can > run the hdd diagnostic. My drive is dying according to smartmon. (Also it > is only for sid and I am on stable.) > > Thanks for any insight. > -Matyas > > -- > "Rental activities in which you actively participate are considered > passive activities." - IRS >
