Dear Community - hello to all of you,

first of all: i hope youre all right and everything goes well at your site.

currently muse bout the question how to correct write a iso to a flash-drive

here the steps to go!? - are they correct!?


Code:
sudo fdisk -l # (usb-CHECK at the very beginning. )
umount /dev/sdb1* # (first of all we need the  USB-Stick unmoute, in order to start afterwards)
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 # formate the  Stick .. and then we go to the   dd - command ...
sudo dd bs=4M if=~/Downloads/_mein_linux.iso of=/dev/xyz status=progress oflag=sync

with the following set of steps - see some of the added comments - i hope that i can learn trough that.


step 1:

Code:
if=/path/to/your.iso: #Path to the ISO-file, where we want to write .

step 2
Code:
of=/dev/sdX: # the name of the device that is the flash sticks (not the Partition, for example like so: /dev/sdb).

step 3:
Code:
bs=4M: #sets the size of the blocks in our example 4 Megabyte (other values possible too)

step 4
Code:
status=progress: # this shows the progress
and subsequently:

Code:
oflag=sync: #takes care that the data were written to the flash-drive before  dd ends.

well dear mates - i hope that you have a closer look - can i do like so!?

look forward to hear from you

regards


ps. keep up the awesome forum - it rocks!!