The only working PC I have is a 32-bit x86 and has a minimal Debian installation. I need to flash a USB with an ISO file from it to make a live system. I tried for a few days to get flathub or appimage working there, but just can't. I decided an apt package would be the easiest course of action, but neither Rufus, Impress or BalenaEtcher seem to be available in default repos. It there a program that is there? A bare .elf executable with no packaging would also be fine.

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[–] 38 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I always had to look up how to use the dd command until a few years back I saw somewhere that you can literally just use cp and the results won't be worse in any way.

cp image.iso /dev/sdX

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You sure it wasn't cat?

    I know you can use a root shell with cat image.ISO > /dev/[...] for disk images/ISO in disk image Format (so most ISO that aren't Windows) but using the cp command would be news for me.

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