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Bug#775824: www.debian.org: [CD/faq] be consistent with the installation-guide



Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi!

In the CD/faq page [1], the instructions for copying the image onto the USB
stick ("How do I write a CD image to a USB flash drive?") are not consistent
with the instructions in the installation guide [2]. While dd certainly does
work, it has never been the documented method to copy the image to a USB stick;
the installation guide uses cp.

Just recommending `cp <file> <device>` and ditching the bs=4M bullet point
offers a simpler and less error prone command.

cheers
Stuart

[1] https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/
[2] https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (550, 'testing-updates'), (550, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)


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