On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 28 Feb 2013 at 09:36:29 +0000, Joe wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:04:04 -0500 >> Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Let me give you an example of the kind of insensitivity (or myopic >>> stupidity) that seems to be the hallmark of the Linux community. In >>> the Debian live page, dd is offered as the way to copy the ISO file >>> to a USB stick. But the dd program offered only runs in Linux! What >>> good is that to someone who is running Windows at the time? >> >> A Linux article that proposes the use of Linux (actually Unix) commands >> and not Windows commands? Whatever next? > > I think Mark has made a fair point, but not in a fair way. He is > probably referring to > > http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ > > which is not particularly nor exclusively aimed at Linux users. He (and > others) might wonder why there is substantial advice for users of > non-Linux OSs on writing an ISO image to a CD but nothing for writing to > a USB device.
Linux isn't as myopic as people are claiming in this thread. Ubuntu points users to this page to create a flash installer: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ And Fedora points users to a Windows version of liveusb-creator here: http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ Debian, unfortunately, only gives instructions to burn to a CD/DVD via Windows on: http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-windows -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swcpjyqwsx5-vxpjzkzqodl29jznqau-i2qedv3jde...@mail.gmail.com
