Linux boot media need not be tricky! In today's episode, I'll talk about four ways to flash an ISO from Windows (and other systems too). I know a lot of you are switching to Linux because of Micros...
  • jaxiiruff
    9•4 months ago

    Not everyone likes to use commands for something as trivial as this, its nice to press a couple buttons and wait for it to be done vs learning how dd works and what arguments to use etc.

    • @[email protected]
      14•4 months ago

      My favorite way to create a boot media is simply to use cat. No arguments, no shenanigans just a cat into the device :

      cat debian.iso > /dev/sda

      • Ghoelian
        4•4 months ago

        iirc there was a reason you should use dd instead of directly copying the data, I think something to do with device block alignment or something?

        • @[email protected]
          1•4 months ago

          That could be possible but for the moment I didn’t encouter any problem with cat. I think I’m going to stick with it for the time being.

      • @[email protected]
        2•4 months ago

        One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root — can’t run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

        • @[email protected]
          2•4 months ago

          Yep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…

          • @[email protected]
            1•4 months ago

            Right, I just meant that you can’t sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)

    • Fonzie!
      5•4 months ago

      Not everyone likes to install compicated graphical software which does a thousand and one things it shouldn’t do just to copy files to an external drive