User blog:Jamvaru/dd

starting a dd page, here in my subfolder

primary purpose:  to format a flash drive with a linux live cd or dvd iso image, so it is bootable

so far i remembered reading about a method on the crunchbang forum, so i am going to check that out... ... ...

and the link is:  http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23267

the relevant information is

WARNING, the following instructions will destroy any existing data on your USB stick.

Determine what device your USB is. With your USB plugged in run: sudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb* This should produce output along the lines of: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-03-15 22:54 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-_USB_DISK_2.0_077508380189-0:0 -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-03-15 22:54 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-_USB_DISK_2.0_077508380189-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdb1 In this example output, the USB device is sdb

Now cd to where your *.iso is cd ~/downloads Example sudo dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/usbdevice bs=4M; sync lets say the iso is named mini.iso and your USB device is sdb

Example sudo dd if=mini.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; sync NOTE - Be sure to understand that there is never a trailing number on the end of your /dev/sdx USB device