mesaISOs Explained + four programs to make Linux boot media
TheFoolI really don’t get why I should use anything else than dd
jaxiiruffNot everyone likes to use commands for something as trivial as this, its nice to press a couple buttons and wait for it to be done vs learning how dd works and what arguments to use etc.
My favorite way to create a boot media is simply to use cat. No arguments, no shenanigans just a cat into the device :
cat debian.iso > /dev/sda
One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root — can’t run that with
sudo as-is, unlike dd.
Yep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…
Right, I just meant that you can’t
sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd …, because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)
Oh right, my bad x)
I agree, it’s a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.