CD/DVD drives have gone obsolete and USB drives have become more popular and cheaper now. Thats the reason we prefer to use USB drives instead of CD or DVD to install a new system.
There are many utilities available which can do this. UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) is one of them. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. The best part of it is that it runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions or supply your own Linux .iso file. It has a very simple user interface.
For command line lovers like me the best utility to burn a .iso to USB drive is “dd”.
If you want to learn how to set VMware to boot from ISO image file, you will find the answer in the article.In the following part, this text will explain the steps for making a VMware boot from ISO image file in detail for your better understanding. What is KNOPPIX ®? KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD, DVD or USB flash drives, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop. Used tuxboot to create bootable boot-repair usb. Then rebooted with that usb stuck in a usb port. After a GRUB2 screen and several minutes, got nice gui with boot-repair screen saying Scanning systems (mount) This may require several minutes. Followed by progress bar, but that progress bar seemed frozen at about 40%.
- Insert the USB drive and open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
- better be a root (sudo -i), don’t be afraid believe in yourself
- use “fdisk -l” to find the USB device
![Linux Boot Cd Iso Linux Boot Cd Iso](/uploads/1/2/6/5/126528606/403059637.jpg)
- So in our case its /dev/sdb
- Make sure the USB device is unmounted
- Assuming the .iso file is in your current working folder, type the below command and wait for it to finish.
Linux Bootable Cd Iso
![Iso Iso](https://docs.kali.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mini_iso_1-1024x768.png)
dd bs=4M if=ubuntu-12.04.2-server-i386.iso of=/dev/sdb
- ubuntu-12.04.2-server-i386.iso is your .iso file
- “bs=4M” is optional. Its just to make it faster
To test if everything has gone right, boot your system from the USB drive. To do so you will have to reboot your system. QEMU can help you in this. What?! Yes QEMU is a machine emulator and virtualizer.
- Make sure qemu is installed (apt-get install qemu)
- run the below command and you will see a virtual machine booting from your USB Drive