Package: live-manual
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Section 4.3 assumes in subsections Burning an ISO image to a physical
medium and Copying an ISO hybrid image to a USB stick that ISO images
are named binary-hybrid.iso. It would clarify to use a variable name or
indicate that this is just an example, as prebuilt images are not named
that way (for example, debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso
<http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso>).
4.3.1 Burning an ISO image to a physical medium
178 <http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/live-manual.html#178>
Burning an ISO image is easy:
179 <http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/live-manual.html#179>
# apt-get install wodim
$ wodim binary-hybrid.iso
180 <http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/live-manual.html#180>
4.3.2 Copying an ISO hybrid image to a USB stick
181 <http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/live-manual.html#181>
ISO images prepared with the isohybrid command, like the images
produced by the default iso-hybrid binary image type, can be simply
copied to a USB stick with the dd program or an equivalent. Plug in a
USB stick with a size larger than that of binary-hybrid.iso and
determine which device it is, which we hereafter refer to as
${USBSTICK}. This is the device file of your key, such as /dev/sdb,
not a partition, such as /dev/sdb1! You can find the right device name
by looking in dmesg's output after plugging in the stick, or better
yet, ls -l /dev/disk/by-id.
182 <http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/live-manual.html#182>
Once you are certain you have the correct device name, use the dd
command to copy the image to the stick. *This will definitely
overwrite any previous contents on your stick!*
183 <http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/live-manual.html#183>
$ dd if=binary-hybrid.iso of=${USBSTICK}
