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How do you create a bootable partition on a USB drive?

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I have a bootable ISO designed to be burned to a double-layer DVD. I don't have a double layer DVD burner, so I would like to stick the ISO image on a 50 GB partition on a USB hard drive I have. How do I get the boot info onto the hard drive? Attempt 1: booted into Ubuntu 9.04 LiveCD deleted the pa…

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sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/MyUSB

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The first thing required is -- your system should be able to boot from USB -- many older ones can't. Then, you could use the utility from a unix installation (or Ubuntu LiveCD). This will low-level copy the ISO to your USB. Of course, the ISO has to…

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