burn dvd iso to usb?

[jrhayden82]

Am running Ubuntu 13.10 and trying to burn a dvd iso (opensuse dvd iso) to a usb. However have not been able to. Maybe I am typing in something wrong?

sudo dmesg | tail -20
[sudo] password for joe:
[ 5411.551184] usb 2-1.1: Manufacturer: UFD
[ 5411.551188] usb 2-1.1: SerialNumber: AAS2CST024W7WN08
[ 5411.551591] usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 5411.551700] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0
[ 5412.908976] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access UFD USB Flash Drive 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 5412.909432] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 5413.408303] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15663104 512-byte logical blocks: (8.01 GB/7.46 GiB)
[ 5413.409665] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 5413.409673] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 5413.411062] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[ 5413.411072] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5413.416910] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[ 5413.416919] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5413.418047] sdb: sdb1
[ 5413.422545] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[ 5413.422553] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 5413.422560] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 5413.652017] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[ 5413.743444] systemd-hostnamed[3696]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname!
[ 5941.394802] Valid eCryptfs headers not found in file header region or xattr region, inode 402675
joe@sovereign:~$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
umount: /dev/sdb1: not mounted
joe@sovereign:~$ sudo dd if=/home/joe/opensuse-12.3.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
dd: opening ‘/home/joe/opensuse-12.3.iso’: Input/output error

[sudodus]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Forums

I think the problem is that you try to flash the iso file to the first partition of the USB drive. Instead you should flash it to the drive itself

/dev/sdb (not /dev/sdb1)

The procedure with dd is risky, so I recommend that you use the shell-script mkusb to reduce the risk and increase the chance to succeed. See this link

Howto make USB boot drives

[thesleash]

there's an app called unetbootin you could use

[couder]

Hi, you can use the Startup Disc Creator to make bootable usb from .iso file.

[heir4c]

Or use multisystem: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/multibo...sb-from-linux/
I have a 32GB USB with 20+ Linux distro's on it.