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Why can't I just copy a bootable CD to a USB drive and boot from it?

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I would like to understand the following: I have a Debian installation CD that I can boot from. Now I copied that to an USB-stick using The CD-image should contain a boot-sector and everything else that is needed for booting, yet the USB stick does not boot. What am I missing ā€“ why does the stick nā€¦

Error Output

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

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Fix for: Why can't I just copy a bootable CD to a USB drive and boot from it?

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Whenever I've done it, I've used the path of the USB device itself, not the first partition. That is, rather than .

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