On 2021-02-03 16:41, John D Groenveld wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Bob
 Friesenhahn writes:
Yes, dd works the same using Linux.  Just make sure to select the
correct device to write to or your system may be destroyed.

The handbook offers good advice for identifying the correct
device name:
<URL:http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#creating-a-hipster-usb-drive>
FWIW (as it's not mentioned in the above link)
If you have FreeBSD installed. I have always use the following:
# my USB stick is located as /dev/da1
# OI image is OI-hipster-gui-20201031.usb in current dir (PWD)

% dd if=OI-hipster-gui-20201031.usb of=/dev/da1 bs=1m conv=sync

--Chris


John
[email protected]


--
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX

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