How make bootable usb with Windows XP liveCD from linux (debian)

how to create bootable USB with Windows XP liveCD. For Linux liveCD/DVD I can write cat <debian-iso> > /dev/<flash-drive>, but in windows case this doesn't works


You can use one of the many programs out there designed for exactly this function. Here are a few of my favorites:

  • Live USB multiboot
  • unetbootin
  • YUMI

Using these apps, you can create a USB that can boot from multiple different ISOs. Including windows.

A great source of information for this kind of thing is the pendrive linux website.


Use dd, not cat:

sudo dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

Where sdX is the name of your flash drive. You can find it using sudo fdisk -l .