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Is there a USB drive flashing program in APT? (lemmy.wtf)

submitted 4 days ago by nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] christian@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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/sdX

[–] f3nyx@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

there's no fucking way

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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 the cp command would be news for me.

[–] molten_boron@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

cp does indeed work too!

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm, cp has smart block size handling & co (unlike dd) but cat is just a stream and pipe & redirect also buffer. Advantage of cp is, you can just sudo it.

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Cat too. It works largely the same way

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

I am 100% certain, I've done this many times over the past few years.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

Real LPT in the comments.

[–] notthebees@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Won't this break if the flash drive isn't marked as bootable?