On 11/16/18 4:38 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:32 PM Russell Senior
<[email protected]> wrote:
fwiw, I've always just used dd. You need to be very sure what device
you are writing to (don't nuke your hard disk!).
My process is something like this:
a) plug in new usb thumbdrive;
b) check the last part of dmesg to confirm the device, e.g.: dmesg -T
| tail -n 30
c) check to see if your system automounted any pre-existing
partitions on the thumbdrive, using mount. If so, umount them.
d) dd if=my.iso of=/dev/sdN bs=1M status=progress (where N is the
lower-case letter associated with the thumbdrive, BE SURE!)
e) when dd has finished, run "sync" to make sure the dirty buffers
make it to the device
f) when sync returns to a shell prompt, you can safely remove the thumbdrive.
Thanks. I'll save this info for the next time.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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