Linux: Copy DVD ISO to empty hard disk / partition and boot as if it is a DVD

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I have a broken DVD drive and no others available right now to burn a DVD iso to so I'd like to use a empty hard disk instead.

I've tried Unetbootin but that only copies a few megabytes of files – the rest of the image data in the ISO is ignored.

I have verified the ISO is valid and working with VirtualBox. It's MD5 hash is also as expected. But I need to boot at the real BIOS not an emulated one.

I've also tried things like:

sudo cat /disk/image.iso > /dev/sdb1

and that got "Permission denied" – no idea why.

Best Answer

In the end I used dd and a USB stick as a boot disk because somehow booting didn't seem to work for the dvd on the hard disk.

sudo dd if=/storeM/os-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M

sudo dd if=/storeM/bootdisk.img of=/dev/sdc
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