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I have a broken DVD drive and no others available right now to burn a DVD iso to so I'd like to use a empty hard disk instead.
I've tried Unetbootin but that only copies a few megabytes of files - the rest of the image data in the ISO is ignored.
I have verified the ISO is valid and working with VirtualBox. It's MD5 hash is also as expected. But I need to boot at the real BIOS not an emulated one.
I've also tried things like:
sudo cat /disk/image.iso > /dev/sdb1
and that got "Permission denied" - no idea why.
what distro? unetbootin only works on casper based distros...also, what OS do you have running now? – Journeyman Geek – 2011-09-10T21:03:44.083
1No guarantees, but you might try using dd instead of cat. Note that it has a special syntax. – zpletan – 2011-09-10T21:44:23.300
@Journeyman_Geek The OS in question may or may not have been mystery OS 'X' ;) I'm not sure it's true unetbootin only works on casper based dsitros though – Luke Stanley – 2011-09-17T21:47:02.357
@zpletan thanks for the DD reminder, it worked enough, in the end. – Luke Stanley – 2011-09-17T21:48:15.927