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Re: Synthesis volume in the debian installer



On 5/1/2020 12:14 PM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Le 01/05/2020 à 11:54, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
>> I don't know if cp will accept a block device as target, but dd will
>
> cp does too, I learned that from Thomas Schmitt.
>
> As it takes some time to complete for a big file and doesn't provide
> an output I usually use it like this/
> cp /path/to/iso /dev/<name> && echo "Done."
>

the cp utility also provide the -v flag.

I used the below cmds to get me going:

$ wget
https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20200430-00:19/netboot/gtk/mini.iso
$ cp -v mini.iso /dev/sdx

--
John Doe


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