On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 07:45:51PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >shirish wrote: >> As I was on MS-Windows had to resort to using a variety of softwares >> trying out rufus and other softwares. For some reason, other than >> unetbootin none of the others worked. > >Did you run Rufus in its "DD" mode ? > > https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/843 > > "DD is an exact clone of the image onto the USB. > [...] > On the other hand what ISO mode does is partition and format the USB > in a way that Windows can always understand (and using the whole > capacity of the drive), and then copy each individual file and > directory from the ISO image onto the newly created file system."
Nod, this is exactly why I recommend DD mode. On the few times I've had to use it, it worked well. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and disappear because they have day jobs." -- Matt Mackall