On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:18:31PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris <russ...@rlharris.org> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > [...] > > >How did you create the flash device - what command did you use? > > > > After downloading the official netinst iso image, I copied it to the > > flash stick (I routinely do netinst of Debian): > > > > # cp debian-11.6.0-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb > > # sync > > I believe you should use dd to preserve the physical layout of the ISO file.
No. Cp is fine. There are good reasons to use dd (for one, you do have to do `sync' after cp and wait until that returns, this is one risk of getting a short copy, whereas you can tell dd to work synchronously; for another, you can tell sync to show you a progress indicator). But the result is identical. You can also use cat. Cheers -- t
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