The only working PC I have is a 32-bit x86 and has a minimal Debian installation. I need to flash a USB with an ISO file from it to make a live system. I tried for a few days to get flathub or appimage working there, but just can’t. I decided an apt package would be the easiest course of action, but neither Rufus, Impress or BalenaEtcher seem to be available in default repos. It there a program that is there? A bare .elf executable with no packaging would also be fine.
I always had to look up how to use the dd command until a few years back I saw somewhere that you can literally just use cp and the results won’t be worse in any way.
cp image.iso /dev/sdXWon’t this break if the flash drive isn’t marked as bootable?
This works. You can also cat image.iso >/dev/sdx
I always laugh at windows users with their external random apps to do something elementary
there’s no fucking way
Real LPT in the comments.
You sure it wasn’t
cat?I know you can use a root shell with
cat image.ISO > /dev/[...]for disk images/ISO in disk image Format (so most ISO that aren’t Windows) but using thecpcommand would be news for me.Hmm, cp has smart block size handling & co (unlike dd) but
catis just a stream and pipe & redirect also buffer. Advantage of cp is, you can just sudo it.Cat too. It works largely the same way
cpdoes indeed work too!I am 100% certain, I’ve done this many times over the past few years.