Hi Friedrich, while you're likely much better versed in your goals than
what I likely know how to do I couldn't help but ponder what exactly you're
trying to accomplish by copying the ISO to the seemingly unpartitioned hard
disk /dev/sda, if I've followed along correctly.
*> which I encountered during copying this ISO image over.*
If you were trying to write the ISO as-is for bootable reuse wouldn't you
use DD to write the image as it stands? Otherwise if keeping the ISO as an
ISO was your goal wouldn't you need to create a basic partition table,
mount the partition (ie /dev/sda1 to /mnt) then *cp archlinux.iso /mnt* ?
Hello,
What Friedrich does is not only perfectly valid, but this is the
suggested method.⁽¹⁾ Nothing should be mounted, the file should be
simply copied to another file.
`dd` is still listed in Arch Wiki, because anybody caring got tired
of reverting that or correcting yet another “improvement” somebody adds.
Dealing with aftermath of using `dd` seems much more efficient than
going on a pointless crusade.
Cheers
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#Using_basic_command_line_utilities
