Lunar 1.7.0 rc1 ISO checksums

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Tue Jul 22 07:26:39 CEST 2014


On 07/21/2014 05:43 AM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> The magical incantation I use is to cd in to the directory you
> downloaded the iso in to, and type: sudo dd if=youriso.iso
> of=/dev/sdl, where l is what letter the drive is. For example, if your
> hard drive is /dev/sda, then the thumb drive may be /dev/sdb.

you don't even need dd for this.

You can just literally do:

# cat foo.iso > /dev/sdb

The images are also directly bootable in qemu


my favorite way of writing usb sticks is with pv:

# pv < isofile > /dev/sdX

pretty output while you wait...

Cheers,

Auke


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