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If you want to make a bootable USB with Windows try Win32 Disk Imager.
A tool for writing images to USB sticks or SD/CF cards
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Description This program is designed to write a raw disk image to a removable device or backup a removable device to a raw image file. It is very useful for embedded development, namely Arm development projects (Android, Ubuntu on Arm, etc). Anyone is free to branch and modify this program. Patches are always welcome.
There are a few applications working with graphical interface (GUI) to make a copy of Sparky onto an USB stick.
1. Mintstick - available in Linux Mint and its derivatives and SparkyLinux as well.
Simply choose Sparky iso image from your hard drive and USB stick.
2. Live USB Creator - Sparky's tool which uses 'dd' command.
Choose Sparky iso image from your hard drive and USB stick.
3. Unetbootin - available in most Linux distributions.
On a Linux host you can copy the iso image in text mode using dd command.
As the first, you have to check what is your already connected USB number.
It can be: sdb, sdc, sde, etc.
Open a terminal and type:
sudo fdisk -l
and then enter your “root” or admin password.
This is only an example, which shows:
/dev/sda1 * 2048 40962047 40960000 19,5G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 40962048 81922047 40960000 19,5G 83 Linux /dev/sda3 81922048 83970047 2048000 1000M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 31260671 31258624 14,9G b W95 FAT32
Next step is to erase previous partition info from your usb, so backup your data before formatting your pen drive.
Unmount your pen drive:
umount /mnt/usb
Format it to FAT32 file system:
sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb
Now copy Sparky iso image to USB disk:
sudo dd if=~/Desktop/sparkylinux.iso of=/dev/sdx oflag=direct bs=1048576
Where:
Warning: Make sure to set the correct device path, as this process will delete all data that was on the specified device previously!
Remember, don't include an integer for the USB drive, e.g. '/dev/sdx1', as it would refer to the existing partition on that drive and not the drive itself.
When the USB has been properly created by dd, there should be an output similar to this:
sudo dd if=~/Desktop/sparkylinux.iso of=/dev/sdb oflag=direct bs=1048576 706+1 records in 706+1 records out 740601856 bytes (741 MB) copied, 91.7024 s, 8.1 MB/s