Hi,
Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
> Comments please!
I would very much appreciate this.
Any objections for me to commit this?
Holger
> Index: CD/faq/index.wml
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> @@ -663,6 +663,38 @@ Mac OS X</a> as well.
>
> # ============================================================
>
> +<toc-add-entry name="write-usb">How do I write a CD image to a USB flash
> drive?</toc-add-entry>
> +
> +<p>Several of the Debian CD and Debian Live images are created using
> +<i>isohybrid</i> technology, which means that they may be used in two
> +different ways:</p>
> +
> +<ul>
> + <li>They may be written to CD/DVD and used as normal for CD/DVD
> booting.</li>
> + <li>They may be written to USB flash drives, bootable directly from the
> BIOS of most PCs.</li>
> +</ul>
> +
> +<p>The most common way to copy an image to a USB flash drive is to use
> +the <q>dd</q> command on a Linux machine:</p>
> +
> +<p><code>dd if=<file> of=<device> bs=4M; sync</code></p>
> +
> +<p>where:</p>
> +<ul>
> + <li><file> is the name of the input image, e.g. <q>netinst.iso</q>
> + <li><device> is the device matching the USB flash drive,
> + e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb. Be careful to make sure you have the right
> + device name, as this command is capable of writing over your hard
> + disk just as easily if you get the wrong one!</li>
> + <li><q>bs=4M</q> tells dd to read/write in 4 megabyte chunks for
> + better performance; the default is 512 bytes, which will be much
> + slower
> + <li>The <q>sync</q> is to make sure that all the writes are flushed out
> + before the command returns.
> +</ul>
> +
> +# ============================================================
> +
> <toc-add-entry name="whatlabel">How should I label the
> CDs?</toc-add-entry>
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