[Hamara-devel] does anybody have a current Windows machine ?

[shirish]

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On Tuesday 22 September 2015 10:49 PM, akshat wrote:
> Hi Shirish,

Dear Akshat,

If possible do not top-post please.

> Arranging windows machine won't be a problem. Can we use Unetbootin for
> creating hamara bootable pendrive by selecting Ubuntu/Debian based on
> Hamara distribution.

AFAIK unetbootin works great on the Ubuntu platform, on debian however, 
they say to stay away from unetbootin and use dd or any other tool.

See https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/install.txt.en

or the PDF version or either and see section 4.3.1 -

Important

The image must be written to the whole-disk device and not a partition, 
e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1. Do not use tools like unetbootin which 
alter the image.

And while I have seen unetbootin doing the work, I have also seen it 
being a failure equal number of times.

The best way is via dd

dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8k or bs=8192
once done pass $sync.

This works excellently.

There is also cp which does the same but with dd I have more control as 
can be seen above.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org