I have a 4GB HP flash drive with FAT32 file system. I'm trying to create a bootable usb drive with an iso file: slitaz-rolling.iso
[ SliTaz is a lighweight linux distro ].
I tried uNetBootin
but got into this issue: UNetbootin is stuck in an “Automatic boot in 10 seconds” countdown loop. Using this tool, I'm able to write large iso files like ubuntu, lubuntu, centos, etc. but not the smaller ones like the one above.
Then I tried Startup Disk Creator
which wouldn't even recognize the iso file (again, unless it's ubuntu, lubuntu, centos, or some other large distro, SDC wouldn't recognize the iso). Then I read here that changing the file extension from iso
to img
might work, which actually did work but after completion nothing got written to the usb drive, it was still empty. I tried a couple times but to no avail.
Then I tried the dd
command, like this:
sudo dd bs=4M if=slitaz-rolling.iso of=/dev/sdb conv=fdatasync status=progress
It runs till completion and I got this:
147046400 bytes (147 MB, 140 MiB) copied, 120.971 s, 1.2 MB/s
But when I check the flash drive, I got nothing. It's empty.
So, what should I do now? or am I missing something? please let me know. thanks.