Back in the day – you know, when we had to walk uphill to school both ways, with nothing but a paper sack for a hat – we had to make our bootable USB flash drives by hand. Like this: Knoppix Linux and Grub Bootloader on USB Flash.
These days, there is an abundance of GUI tools. Here are few (windows-flavored) that can make bootable drives from ISOs: UNetbootin, XBOOT (I haven’t tried it), and YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator.
I’ll post an aritcle about a more modern command-line approach one of these days.
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