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Is there a USB drive flashing program in APT?
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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/sdXthere's no fucking way
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 thecpcommand would be news for me.cpdoes indeed work too!Hmm, cp has smart block size handling & co (unlike dd) but
catis just a stream and pipe & redirect also buffer. Advantage of cp is, you can just sudo it.Cat too. It works largely the same way
I am 100% certain, I've done this many times over the past few years.
This works. You can also cat image.iso >/dev/sdx
I always laugh at windows users with their external random apps to do something elementary
Real LPT in the comments.
Won't this break if the flash drive isn't marked as bootable?