On 05/27/2018 03:13 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-05-27 15:00, Markus Egg wrote:
Am 27/05/18 um 14:25 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
I use:
dd if=openSUSE-Leap-15.0-DVD-x86_64.iso \ of=/dev/sdX bs=16M oflag=direct status=progress Silly me, of course dd. What a rhyme. ;-) Welcome :-)
You can just use
cat ISO > /dev/sdX
or
cp ISO /dev/sdX
anything works :-)
The dd command above is simply better adjusted. Normally copying a 4 GB file fills the kernel cache with it and can make the entire computer slow; the "oflag=direct" avoids this. And with "status=progress" we get some idea of the time remaining - here it took almost 19 minutes (3,5 MB/s).
I often use dd. I used it to copy the 15.0 ISO to USB stick and again to back up my 42.3 system to USB, before updating to 15.0. Maybe we should go back to tar & 9 track tape. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org