Transfer the ISO content to a medium

Transfer the ISO content to a medium

• You can burn the ISO file to a CDROM medium (only the XFCE Edition fits on a CD) or to a DVD,using your favorite burning program like k3b (KDE), xfburn (XFCE), xcdroast (plain X-Window) or brasero (GNOME)… or a Windows burning program if you want.
  Make sure you inform the application that this is a bootable ISO, i.e. do not simply burn the contents of the ISO to a disk.
• Or, you use the program ‘dd’ or else ‘cp’ to transfer the ISO to a USB stick (aka flash drive). Any of the following two commandlines will do the job, provided your USB stick is known by your Linux computer as “/dev/sdX“. Note that sdX means the whole disk, not a partition on the disk!
  

  $ dd if=slackware-live-14.2.iso of=/dev/sdX
  $ cp slackware-live-14.2.iso /dev/sdX

  This creates a read-only bootable USB medium containing Slackware Live. Readonly means that you will not get persistence this way. This method is similar to using a DVD medium. If you want a writable USB stick instead, read the next option.
• You can use the ‘iso2usb.sh’ script to transfer the content of the ISO to a USB stick, thereby adding persistence to the Live OS on the stick. The stick will remain writable and you can add new modules later on if you want.
  You can find extensive documentation on the usage of that script on the Slackware Documentation Wiki.

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