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Ben's Bits - Archives for: August 2007, 19 (365 words) |
 | Back before bootable CDs (and support in BIOSs) were common most Linux distributions distributed a boot disk image to go along with their CD so it was not uncommon for the power user to encounter a disk image. |
| In these cases a DOS compatible utility called rawrite (or in more advanced distrobutions WinRawrite) could be used to write the image to a disk or, conversely, read a disk to an image file. |
| Creating the images from physical disks is fairly straight forward using WinRawrite but in some cases I have earlier copies of disks done in a proprietary self extracting image format which only can write the image to a physical disk. |
| DebianLive/Howto/USB - Debian Wiki (584 words) |
| Please note that after this step your USB flash drive will be unreadable by Windows. |
| On Windows 32 systems instead of dd use WinRaWrite (the easiest) or dd for Windows to copy the image file onto the USB drive. |
| Now, ensure that your USB drive is plugged in and reboot your computer to use DebianLive. |
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