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/sdXthere’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.cpdoes indeed work too!I am 100% certain, I’ve done this many times over the past few years.