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When putting Debian.iso onto a flash drive do you have to use root? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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On Debian's website it is saying to write the image to the USB stick I should use a bash script "# cp Debian.iso /dev/sdX

sync"

Is there another way to do this without using root access?

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I wasn’t completely convinced by that since I build it from source and the binary blobs match their checksums. Months between releases isn’t out of the ordinary for some projects too…

Regardless, what is an alternative that works the same way?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The binary blobs match which checksums? The ones provided by the ventoy developer?

    GLIM is an alternative that's much simpler (it just uses Grub configs) so it is easy to audit:

    https://github.com/thias/glim

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Yeah when you build from source you gotta dl some blobs from busybox and some other projects. It works fine with the ones the developer claims their build is based off of, the ones whose checksums are listed in the docs and match what you get when you ask for them from the repos for the aforementioned busybox or whatever.

    I haven’t pulled apart a binary release of ventoy to check and see if it actually has those documented blobs or something else.

    I’ll look at glim. Might be cool.

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