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ex_Koo
First thing to do is found your usb drive with sudo fdisk -l
As you see from the below picture my usb is sdc (only use the root of usb not sdc1 2).
Find where where your iso is stored say it is my Download folder.
The command would be sudo dd if=/home/koo/Downloads/antiX.iso of=/dev/sdc (press enter)
After you press enter then enter your password the usb will be formatted then the iso is written this will take a while.
You should now have a bootable install on your usb drive..
PDP-8
Nice. Maybe investigate the use of other flags to those commands to ensure a speedy and accurate dd. Progress bars etc are nice.
The only thing I’d say if one is doing this with a simplistic commandline is to be sure and run sync afterwards.
Historical note: The use of IF= and OF= is a really old hold-over from the 1960’s IBM OS/360 mainframe days and it’s JCL job control language. Yet we still use it today with a definitely un-unixy syntax. 🙂
Rewritten for unix – and although at first it looks scary, is to just use redirection, first with the IF being substituted with < … and the OF being substituted by the > redirection.
Something like this:
dd < /downloads/antiX.iso > /dev/sda [flags]If we all started using dd this way, Doug McIlroy would sleep better at night. 🙂
Sorry – didn’t mean to geek out on you in particular. For the longest time, I always just assumed one had to do dd’s with IF and OF, not realizing that it doesn’t make the Unix gods happy. 🙂
- This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by PDP-8.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by PDP-8.
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