The provision of advice for users on how to write an isohybrid image to a USB drive under Windows has been discussed previously at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2011/09/msg00056.html Below are the notes I made when testing four programs with Windows XP and Vista Home Edition. Apologies for not submitting them as a patch to the CD FAQ web page but I do not know how to do that. I think Win32 Disk Imager, Unetbootin and LinuxLive USB Creator all claim to support Windows 7, so there should be no real problem using them with that OS. I've not yet been able test Flashnul under Windows 7 but have seen a reference which says it does work, although there is a niggling indication the drive letter rather than the index number has to be used. Hence my reluctance to offer definitive advice - 'You almost certainly . . .' A device written by Flashnul and Win32 Disk Imager appears to be identical to one written with dd or cat. LiLi uses the whole device, renames /isolinux to /syslinux, adds a file or two of its own to the disk but boots to the familiar Debian splash screen. Unetbootin also adds files and, in addition, presents its own menu rather than the Debian one. Nevertheless, it will boot an installer iso. Note: The spelling 'Avaible' is not mine! o<-----o<-----o<-----o<-----o<-----o<-----o<-----o<-----o<-----o<----- How do I write a CD image to a USB flash drive in a Windows environment? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flashnul and Win32 Disk Imager do not care how the drive is partitioned or formatted but Unetbootin and LiLi deal with the iso in a different way from these two and require a single formatted FAT16 or FAT32 partition to write the iso image to. Flashnul (http://shounen.ru/soft/flashnul) Download flashnul-1rc1.zip, unzip the file, obtain a command prompt with Administrator rights and change to the directory containing flashnul.exe. There is English and Russion documentation in the same place and the command flashnul --help will output the options which are available. Flashnul provides similar functionality to the dd command mentioned above. Without the USB drive inserted run flashnul -p There will be two lists; one for available physical drives and a second for available logical disks. Insert the USB drive and re-run the command. This will enable you to identify the index number and drive letter for the flash device. An example: Avaible physical drives: 0 size = 60022480896 (55 Gb) 1 size = 1010926752 (963 Mb) Avaible logical disks: C:\ D:\ E:\ You almost certainly want the drive index number, 1 in this case, so, with the Debian iso in the same directory as the flashnul files, write it to the USB drive with: flashnul 1 -L debian.iso You now have a second chance to verify you are writing to the correct device before typing 'yes' because there will about half a screen of information to check. Actually, prior to writing, you could also read from the drive with flashnul 1 -R and watch for the LED on it flashing. Win32 Disk Imager (https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download) After downloading the binary file, unzip it and run win32diskimager. Insert the USB storage device. Its drive letter should now appear under the 'Device' option in the interface. You can check it is the correct one by reading from the storage device to a file of your choice and looking for the device's LED flashing. To write the Debian iso to the device have 'Save as type:' as *.*, select the iso and click on 'Write'. LinuxLive USB Creator (http://www.linuxliveusb.com/) Download the LiLi installer and execute it to install its files. Start the program with the USB device inserted and use your knowledge of its size to guide you in whether it has been correctly identified. Choose an iso to write to the drive and, in STEP 4, have only 'Format the key . .' ticked. Unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) Download the Windows package and run it without the USB drive connected to the machine. Insert the device and change 'Type:' to 'Hard Disk' and then back to 'USB Drive'. Its drive letter should now appear in the 'Drive:' box. Select your iso and OK it for writing to the drive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120520233356.GM2847@desktop
