You must get the devices right in this command. No need for scripts, intermediate files or extra bits of code wedged in. For example, if your DVD is at /dev/sr0 and your USB stick at /dev/sdb, you can copy with Instead, you can simply copy the contents of the DVD to your USB stick using the dd terminal command. That means there is no need for the dvd2usb.sh script we have been using for the last couple of years. This has a number of advantages, one of which is that the ISO image created for GRUB works with USB sticks as well as DVD. We have changed the way the Linux Format DVDs boot, by switching from ISOLINUX to GRUB. Linux Format wrote:Copying the DVD to a bootable USB stick Don't know if you can actually clone a Windows setup unless you can relocate the ISO and all the files using dd or something similar. The way you write the ISO to a device is relational if you copy it as a file, the device will not boot. I used the following instructions from a multi distro disc from Linux format Magazine and another from Linux Pro so it may be specific to the disc unless you create the grub ISO. I was able to open all three distros on the copied disc but the install failed on one and the other went right to boot (Slax) probably as it was designed to be a USB operating system. Note: You have to use a LiveCD (proper ISO) as other discs probably won't work. Used a desktop to make the copy to the usb I got a 4 port extension, changed the boot order for the notebook in the bios to the recognized usb. I have an Inspirion Notebook without an accessible CD drive, only 2 usb ports and not enough. ran into some similar copy issues for LiveCDs to USB with several Linux distros. Based on my problems trying to install Linux from a flash drive (which I had expected to be as easy as installing it from a CD) I thought I better ask for advice. I suspect my first step would be to remove the Manjaro partition (since I might need the space for the SSD image, and will need to re-install it anyways) and backup my Windows data files and the factory partition to a external hard disk drive (that I connect via USB). I wound up burning a CD for Manjaro and installing from it, which worked first time. The symptoms ranged from the BIOS not recognizing the flash drive when booting, crashing, to not being able to see the desktop (just random noise) after finishing installing Linux. I tried using both Rufus and the Universal USB Installer for Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Manjaro multiple times. I had no luck installing any Linux distro via a flash drive. I primarily use Windows 10 and have not spent much time customizing Manjaro yet. But now I'd like to dual boot windows 10 from the larger SSD and Manjaro from the smaller SSD. (2) I was originally thinking of deleting everything on the smaller SSD and using it for just more fast storage (after being able to boot off of the larger SSD). (1) What cloning software do you suggest I use? Some of their articles state you should use EaseUS Todo Backup to clone a small SSD to a larger SSD. I thought both would do block by block cloning, but its not clear the free version of EaseUS Partition Manager does that. Some of the documentation for CloneZilla states the image size is limited by the boot media's size (CD/DVD in my case), other implies it can store the SSD image on the hard disk. The documentation for Clonezilla and EaseUS Partition Master don't seem to have that restriction. Its not clear whether that means it will remove grub and boot Windows (in which case I just need to use SystemRescueCD to reinstall grub) or something worse happens. Samsung has some data migration software that can clone a drive onto the SSD but states its not meant for drives that have multiple operating systems. The existing SSD includes a factory image partition. I want to clone the existing image of the smaller SSD onto the larger SSD, and then use the UEFI BIOS settings to make the larger SSD the boot drive. So I bought a 500GB Samsung 970 EVO SSD while it was on sale. The SSD is getting full and there are issues in some cases if I try to install an application on anything but the boot drive. Its using grub and UEFI with secure boot disabled. Windows is on the SSD, Manjaro on a hard disk partition. I have a Dell Inspiron 5675 PC with a 256GB SSD and a 1TB hard disk that is configured to dual boot Windows 10 and Manjaro (Linux).
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