Comments please! Index: CD/faq/index.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/CD/faq/index.wml,v retrieving revision 1.99 diff -u -p -r1.99 index.wml --- CD/faq/index.wml 3 Jul 2011 23:04:47 -0000 1.99 +++ CD/faq/index.wml 8 Sep 2011 16:01:11 -0000 @@ -663,6 +663,38 @@ Mac OS X</a> as well. # ============================================================ +<toc-add-entry name="write-usb">How do I write a CD image to a USB flash drive?</toc-add-entry> + +<p>Several of the Debian CD and Debian Live images are created using +<i>isohybrid</i> technology, which means that they may be used in two +different ways:</p> + +<ul> + <li>They may be written to CD/DVD and used as normal for CD/DVD booting.</li> + <li>They may be written to USB flash drives, bootable directly from the BIOS of most PCs.</li> +</ul> + +<p>The most common way to copy an image to a USB flash drive is to use +the <q>dd</q> command on a Linux machine:</p> + +<p><code>dd if=<file> of=<device> bs=4M; sync</code></p> + +<p>where:</p> +<ul> + <li><file> is the name of the input image, e.g. <q>netinst.iso</q> + <li><device> is the device matching the USB flash drive, + e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb. Be careful to make sure you have the right + device name, as this command is capable of writing over your hard + disk just as easily if you get the wrong one!</li> + <li><q>bs=4M</q> tells dd to read/write in 4 megabyte chunks for + better performance; the default is 512 bytes, which will be much + slower + <li>The <q>sync</q> is to make sure that all the writes are flushed out + before the command returns. +</ul> + +# ============================================================ + <toc-add-entry name="whatlabel">How should I label the CDs?</toc-add-entry>
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