The CDROM image was a firmware upgrade image from Dell (based on Linux). Mounting the image with iDRAC, it worked nicely. As one of the Servers had a dying iDRAC (Dell R320), I needed an USB stick.

Taking another approach, several of the distributions use "hybrid" ISO images, which can be copied directly to a USB stick (with dd or equivalents) to create a bootable USB stick - Fedora, openSuSE ...

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