On Tue 08 Oct 2019 at 14:48:08 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote:
[...] > > 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 I still use this command out of habit on occasion, but it ceased to be a recommended Debian method some time ago. See #660776: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660776 > > 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. The cp or dd commands must run with root privileges. I run 'lsblk' before and after plugging the USB device in. Writing an image to a USB stick is not something to rush if you don't want a system disk to suffer. -- Brian.
