At Wed, 7 Oct 2026 09:21:01 -0400 (EDT) Robert Heller <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> The ISO-9660 file system was originally intended for CD-ROMs (note "ROM": Read
> Only Media). It is was designed as a writable file system. I have no idea what
^- NOT (opps!)
> Unetbootin is doing, but it obviously NOT directly copying the ISO-9660 disk
> image to the flash drive.
>
> There is no reason to make the ISO boot image itself writable. If you want to
> create a self-contained bootable Linux system on a flash drive and use it as a
> rwad/write Linux system, that is something else.
>
> At Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:15:15 +0200 [email protected] wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > does someone know, why when writing an ISO-file with the tool "dd" to an
> > USB-
> > stick, this stick can not be mounted writable? Tricks like "remount rw" or
> > similar do not work?
> >
> > On the other hand, when I am writing the same ISO-image to the stick by
> > using
> > Unetbootin, the files on the stick are writable.
> >
> > What did I miss? It looks, Unetbootin (and I believe BalenaEtcher, too) are
> > working other than dd.
> >
> > Is there an option, using dd and let the stick writable iIn case, I want to
> > edit some files, like syslinux.cfg, grub.cfg or similar)?
> >
> > Thanks for enlightening me.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Hans
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