The first partition received the bootable flag. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytesĭevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes What happened under the hood?īy looking at the new partition table of our USB stick (/dev/sdd), we can see that three partitions were created: ~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sddĭisk /dev/sdd: 28.7 GiB, 30752636928 bytes, 60063744 sectors I have yet to find an ISO where this did not work. Knoppix ISO successfully written to USB stick Note: If it doesn't show up, make sure you have the 'mintstick' package installed. Another way is to use a right-click on an ISO file and select 'Make bootable USB stick' from the context menu. If you're on a Linux Mint machine, simply enter 'USB Image' in the menu and the 'USB Image Writer' should show up in the list. However with the program mintstick, which is part of every recent Linux Mint release, I have (so far) only made great experiences! Create a bootable USB stick with mintstick There are a bunch of alternatives, such as unetbootin, but here too I experienced boot issues with the stick – depending on the source image. The chances are high that this USB stick will not boot (mostly due to a problem of internal naming of its own drive). The tech-savvy people comfortable using the command line would probably chose the dd (disk dump) command to copy the ISO to a USB stick: $ sudo dd if=~/Downloads/KNOPPIX_V9.1DVD-EN.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4096īut Knoppix is an excellent example that this is not enough. Creating a bootable USB stick on Linux can sometimes be a pain, depending on the ISO image and how it is built.

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