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

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> Comments please!

I would very much appreciate this.

Any objections for me to commit this?

Holger


> Index: CD/faq/index.wml
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> RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/CD/faq/index.wml,v
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> diff -u -p -r1.99 index.wml
> --- CD/faq/index.wml	3 Jul 2011 23:04:47 -0000	1.99
> +++ CD/faq/index.wml	8 Sep 2011 16:01:11 -0000
> @@ -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>
> +
> +<p><code>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=&lt;device&gt; bs=4M; sync</code></p>
> +
> +<p>where:</p>
> +<ul>
> +  <li>&lt;file&gt; is the name of the input image, e.g. <q>netinst.iso</q>
> +  <li>&lt;device&gt; is the device matching the USB flash drive,
> +  e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb. Be careful to make sure you have the right
> +  device name, as this command is capable of writing over your hard
> +  disk just as easily if you get the wrong one!</li>
> +  <li><q>bs=4M</q> tells dd to read/write in 4 megabyte chunks for
> +  better performance; the default is 512 bytes, which will be much
> +  slower
> +  <li>The <q>sync</q> is to make sure that all the writes are flushed out
> +  before the command returns.
> +</ul>
> +
> +# ============================================================
> +
>  <toc-add-entry name="whatlabel">How should I label the
>  CDs?</toc-add-entry>



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