On 03/05/2019 18:24, James Medeiros wrote: > I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if > I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make > sure your USB isn't mounted. > > dd if=<ISO file> of=/dev/sdf bs=8M > > > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org > <mailto:wool...@eeg.ccf.org>> wrote: > > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > it auto-mounted. > > > So as root I did: > > > > cp <ISO file> /dev/sdf > > You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp. This > may mean > you have to turn off your auto-mounter, or (better still) just log > out of > your Desktop Environment entirely, and log in as root on a text > console > for this operation. > > If the device is mounted, that will interfere with the raw byte > writing > you're doing. The results are unpredictable. >
Just to add that if you put status=progress at the end you should get a progress bar as it writes, this is handy otherwise you are sitting around for what seems ages while it writes away in the background. Hope this helps Paul -- Paul Sutton http://www.zleap.net https://www.linkedin.com/in/zleap/ gnupg : 7D6D B682 F351 8D08 1893 1E16 F086 5537 D066 302D
