Hi, (We are discussing this for the archive, as Larry Honaker probably needs advise for doing it on MS-Windows.)
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > cp copies a file onto s file system, bit that's not what's wanted here. It does indeed. But (at least with our GNU coreutils cp) copying a data file to a block device file does not replace the device file by a copied data file but rather copies the data file content into the block device file. The proposals at https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb have been tested at least once. debian-cd will surely accept a bug report if they do not work any more due to bitrot. > To create a bootable image from a .iso, you need 'dd', i.e. dd is a great tool, indeed, and i use it for the purpose out of tradition. But it does nothing essential for the copied image to be able to work. Any program run which produces a correct byte-by-byte copy of the image on the USB stick will do. For example some useless use of "cat": cat image.iso >/dev/sde > Make sure you identify the correct usb stick for sdx, or you may end up > overwriting something important. Yeah. This is a big problem. We'd need a desktop-user-safe GUI tool which by some AI detects the USB stick which is least worthy of preservation. Have a nice day :) Thomas
