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ISOs Explained + four programs to make Linux boot media (makertube.net)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

My favorite way to create a boot media is simply to use cat. No arguments, no shenanigans just a cat into the device :

cat debian.iso > /dev/sda

[–] neodc 17 points 4 months ago

Replace cat with pv to get a progress bar for free

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

iirc there was a reason you should use dd instead of directly copying the data, I think something to do with device block alignment or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That could be possible but for the moment I didn't encouter any problem with cat. I think I'm going to stick with it for the time being.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root

can't run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep that's right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right, I just meant that you can't sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn't elevated to root with sudo. I'm not saying anything too profound :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh right, my bad x) I agree, it's a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.