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Re: Add an extra item to the CD faq: write image to USB



Hi there!

No flame, please, this is a fair question.

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:15:51 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Index: CD/faq/index.wml
> @@ -663,6 +663,38 @@ Mac OS X</a> as well.
>  
>  # ============================================================
>  
> +<toc-add-entry name="write-usb">How do I write a CD image to a USB flash drive?</toc-add-entry>
> +
> +<p>Several of the Debian CD and Debian Live images are created using
> +<i>isohybrid</i> technology, which means that they may be used in two
> +different ways:</p>
> +
> +<ul>
> +  <li>They may be written to CD/DVD and used as normal for CD/DVD booting.</li>
> +  <li>They may be written to USB flash drives, bootable directly from the BIOS of most PCs.</li>
> +</ul>
> +
> +<p>The most common way to copy an image to a USB flash drive is to use
> +the <q>dd</q> command on a Linux machine:</p>
                              ^^^^^
Are these informations the same for other Unixes, i.e. Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD?  Then the above should be corrected to reflect that.

Please note that in any case I would correct that, we still call it
Debian GNU/Linux and not simply Linux:

  <http://www.debian.org/>

  Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating
  system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your
  computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating
  system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project;
  hence the name GNU/Linux.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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