How to burn an ISO image to a Pen Drive to make it bootable?  

As For As I AM CONCERN,You need these two utilities to get your work done :

* BBIE - Bart's Boot Image Extractor http://nu2.nu/bbie/
* Bart's MKBT, Make Bootable http://nu2.nu/mkbt/


First , format your zip drive to FAT 32 Filesystem , now to make drive bootable follow these steps :
1. Extract boot sector of cd using bbie [e.g "bbie image.iso" , "bbie e:"]
2. This will create file image1.bin
3. now copy the contents of the iso or cd onto you USB drive.
4. now execute this command "mkbt -c -x {you zip drive letter} image1.bin"

also , if you want to boot a linux filesystem or the likes then you can follow this guide

http://www.althack.co m/2006/03/10/how-to-run-linux- on-a-usb-drive/

Answered by Sharad Singh at 7:27 PM on September 03, 2008

You need these two utilities to get your work done :

* BBIE - Bart's Boot Image Extractor http://nu2.nu/bbie/
* Bart's MKBT, Make Bootable http://nu2.nu/mkbt/


First , format your zip drive to FAT 32 Filesystem , now to make drive bootable follow these steps :
1. Extract boot sector of cd using bbie [e.g "bbie image.iso" , "bbie e:"]
2. This will create file image1.bin
3. now copy the contents of the iso or cd onto you USB drive.
4. now execute this command "mkbt -c -x {you zip drive letter} image1.bin"

also , if you want to boot a linux filesystem or the likes then you can follow this guide

http://www.althack.co m/2006/03/10/how-to-run-linux- on-a-usb-drive/

Answered by Shobhit at 7:45 PM on August 29, 2008

hello madepp Finally got it.
Did get the method to make the usb stick bootable using the iso image that I had for Ghost for linux.
Everything here depends on syslinux.cfg and isolinux.cfg files.
To boot from usb we need syslinux.cfg file.

Method I followed to make it: (Used windows machine to do this. But same can be done from linux box as well)

*Format the usb stick. I used HP usb formatter tool for this.
*Extract the files from iso to the usb stick. I used MagicIso.
*Download the syslinux.zip from kernel.org to some file say D:/syslinux
*Open the usb stick and rename the isolinux.cfg as syslinux.cfg. In my case both files were present. So, I deleted isolinux.cfg
*Extract the syslinux.zip. I used winzip.
*Now go to the terminal.
*cd to the directory where syslinux was extracted and then cd to win32 directory.
*Next just give this:
d:/syslinux/win32> syslinux.exe G: (G: was the usb stick. Replace with the drive name for usb stick)
*After the operation is complete exit and reboot the system to boot it from the usb.

This all procedure should work for most of the distros though I tried it for Ghost for linux.
for more inf check source http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest ions/linux-software-2/burning-.iso- image-on-pen-drive-643958/

Answered by raj u at 7:16 PM on August 15, 2008

here's a way to do it :

You need these two utilities to get your work done :

* BBIE - Bart's Boot Image Extractor http://nu2.nu/bbie/
* Bart's MKBT, Make Bootable http://nu2.nu/mkbt/


First , format your zip drive to FAT 32 Filesystem , now to make drive bootable follow these steps :
1. Extract boot sector of cd using bbie [e.g "bbie image.iso" , "bbie e:"]
2. This will create file image1.bin
3. now copy the contents of the iso or cd onto you USB drive.
4. now execute this command "mkbt -c -x {you zip drive letter} image1.bin"

also , if you want to boot a linux filesystem or the likes then you can follow this guide

http://www.althack.co m/2006/03/10/how-to-run-linux- on-a-usb-drive/

Answered by Nagendra at 7:22 PM on August 14, 2008

The Summary of the Entire Process is:

1. Install new MBR (Master Boot Record) onto the Flash
2. Create 2 Partitions on the Flash Drive, one for the diskboot.img image and the other for the Trixbox ISO file.
3. Boot the target system with the USB Drive
4. When asked where the install media is, point it to the second partition on the flash.
5. The Install Process will begin.
Follow point by point instructions:

http://www.tr ixbox.org/wiki/howto-install-t rixbox-2-4-usb-flash-drive

Answered by keshto at 6:30 PM on August 14, 2008

U need tochange the booting drives order from bios...hopefully u could resolve ur problem

Answered by shaista at 5:26 PM on August 14, 2008

here's a way to do it :

You need these two utilities to get your work done :
BBIE - Bart's Boot Image Extractor http://nu2.nu/bbie/
Bart's MKBT, Make Bootable http://nu2.nu/mkbt/

First , format your zip drive to FAT 32 Filesystem , now to make drive bootable follow these steps :
1. Extract boot sector of cd using bbie [e.g "bbie image.iso" , "bbie e:"]
2. This will create file image1.bin
3. now copy the contents of the iso or cd onto you USB drive.
4. now execute this command "mkbt -c -x {you zip drive letter} image1.bin"

also , if you want to boot a linux filesystem or the likes then you can follow this guide http://www.althack.com/2006/03/10/h o...n-a-usb-drive/

Answered by Hem@nt .... at 5:26 PM on August 14, 2008

Well Mandeep , first of al you need a computer that has a bios that will allow usb booting otherwise it is imposable, but otherwise you just change the order of booting drives so that the usb is higher than the hard drive and that will enable you to boot off the usb stick
now for the bit that I can only suggest with due to not ever having done it myself.

If you disconnect the hard drive (to stop the install from wiping that) you should be able to put the usb and cd in the pc and install like normal.

Answered by Alok Gupta at 4:26 PM on August 14, 2008