Month: February 2022

HOW TO MAKE A bootable USB Drive

Here’s how you make a bootable USB Stick, in case you want to learn something on this nice saturday. First let’s look at how to do a Windows Flash Drive and then we look how to do a Linux one.

HOW TO DO A BOOTABLE WINDOWS USB FLASH DRIVE

  • Fdisk the thing
  • set the bootflag
  • install ntfs driver
  • format the flash drive with ntfs
  • realize you forgot the fast option
  • cancel
  • run again with fast option
  • write the boot sector
  • mount the flash drive
  • have a hanging mount process
  • pull out flash drive
  • process still there
  • can’t even kill -9
  • reboot workstation
  • can’t mount flash drive
  • use ntfsfix to repair it
  • mount flash drive again
  • mount ISO file
  • copy everything over
  • have input output errors
  • trying to remount the flash drive
  • mount command hanging again
  • pull out flash drive
  • format again
  • repeat as above
  • Finally finished
  • Doesn’t boot
  • Decide to use unetbootin
  • realize you have to specifiy the ntfs formatted drive directly from the CLI command
  • Unebootin takes forever
  • finally finished
  • Booting still doesn’t work
  • GIVE UP
  • GRAB COFFEE

HOW TO DO A BOOTABLE LINUX USB FLASH DRIVE

  • dd if=ISOFile.iso of=/dev/sdX
  • Grab Coffee

Stay tuned for more tutorials.

WRITING

I want to write more. And I always wanted to write book. But I’m just too lazy and not disciplined enough. I don’t even know where to begin. Do Ya’ll think I could write a book, if I start writing one sentence at a time? Like One sentence every two days or so. This would actually be manageable. It would probably be a total mess in terms of structure and coherence, but once I have enough material, I could just restructure it and re-write it. I mean typing something again and just re-aligning words in the end is easier than having a blank page right? … hmmm… guess I should try this idiotic idea… I’ll let you know how it goes.