Mageia + USB = Hell?

[pivotraze]

I can't get Mageia to work my USB no matter what.

I tried UNetBootin, then read it doesn't work.
I tried Mandriva Seed, doesn't work (I have Windows 7)
Finally, I tried dd for windows... doesn't work.
As a last resort, I extracted straight from ISO to the usb, even though i knew it wouldn't work. I'm trying Fedora Live USB Creator right now.
Fedora Live USB Creator didn't work either :\
I have NO CD-RWs to use, so that's outta the question.

What's my choices?

DD for Windows commands I used (I renamed the downloaded iso to mageia.iso):
C:\> c:\apps\dd\dd if=c:\mageia.iso of=f:\ bs=1M
Error opening input file: 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
C:\> c:\apps\dd\dd if=//./c:/mageia.iso of=f:
Error opening input file: 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
C:\> c:\apps\dd\dd if=\\.\c:\mageia.iso of=\\.\f:
Error opening input file: 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
C:\>c:\apps\dd\dd if=\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2\mageia.iso of=\\.\Volume{6f8bf162-faac-11e0-ba09-00e0b8c045fe}\
Error native opening input file: 0 The operation completed successfully.
C:\>c:\apps\dd\dd if=\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2\mageia.iso of=\\.\Volume{6f8bf162-faac-11e0-ba09-00e0b8c045fe}
Error native opening input file: 0 The operation completed successfully.

[sglafata]

What are you trying to do? Are you trying to install Mageia on the USB thumb drive?

[pivotraze]

No, I was trying to put it on the USB so I could install it from the USB onto my computer. I have done this with nearly all my linux distros I've tried, and with Windows Vista/7. The only other one that didn't work this way was OpenSUSE.

[wobo]

try this one: move the input file (the iso) to the folder with your dd.exe. I tried this in my Windows 7 installation with the Mageia KDE iso:

1. Installed dd (I downloaded the zip to my personal folder in Downloads and then extracted the archive there, so the path to dd is c:\marvin\Downloads\zip\dd.exe)
2. I moved mageia-kde.iso to C:\Downloads\zip\
3. C:\> cd C:\marvin\Downloads\zip
4. C:\marvin\Downloads\zip> dd --list (this shows all partitions and media - the usb key in my system is shown under D:\)
5. C:\marvin\Downloads\zip> dd if=mageia-kde.iso of=\\.\d:

That worked here.

[magu]

Just found a tool to create a mageia usb with persistent changes ala mandriva flash, see this post

http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic. ... 8&t=136076

[Max]

Just found a tool to create a mageia usb with persistent changes ala mandriva flash, see this post

http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic. ... 8&t=136076

Is there anybody who has tried this and can report findings? The guy himself says it;s buggy...