Linux boot media need not be tricky! In today's episode, I'll talk about four ways to flash an ISO from Windows (and other systems too). I know a lot of you are switching to Linux because of Micros...
  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    5 months ago

    One caveat is that you will need write access to the drive, which probably means you need to run as root — can’t run that with sudo as-is, unlike dd.

    • foudinfo
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      5 months ago

      Yep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…

      • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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        5 months ago

        Right, I just meant that you can’t sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)

        • foudinfo
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          4 months ago

          Oh right, my bad x) I agree, it’s a little bit akward to use su then cat everytime.