On Wednesday 26 Sep 2012 13:02:56 Phil wrote: > Thank you for reading this. > > Over the years I've attempted to create a bootable external USB drive, > but without success. Recently I tried unetbootin which is supposed to > download and install a Linux distribution of choice and then create a > bootable disc. It all seems to work well except my laptop won't boot > from the newly created bootable external drive. > > I've occasionally forgotten to unplug my e-book reader and the next time > that I start the computer I'm informed that "this is not a bootable > disc." So, the computer does detect whether an external device is > bootable or not. > > My question is, how can I determine whether the external drive is indeed > bootable or not? Is there a bit that's set somewhere if it's bootable?
As far as I know unenetbooting does not work with our iso's, its a long time erm undocumented feature ;) you can use the DD command, there is even a DD for widoz. Regards John (Led43_xxx) -- Registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up !
