Hi again, Just to add more to this so I don't (completely) forget everything ....
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the ‘dd’ command. > > For example, your usb flash drive is known to the system as /dev/sdf and you > want to put FD12FULL.img on there. > > Simply running: ‘dd if=FD12FULL.img of=/dev/sdf’ as superuser will do the > trick. It will take a little while and would > be faster if you add block sizes and counts. But, it will work file without > them. The FreeDOS 1.2 USB stick images > have a built in partition table. So, make sure you write to the device (like > sdf) an not a partition (like sdf0). > Also, MAKE SURE OF YOUR TARGET DEVICE!. If you target your the drive with > your linux install, you will DESTROY > all of the data there. > > There are only a couple drawbacks to using dd. It is slow. Unless you know > how to poll it, you get no progress report. > It will create the partition at the same size as in the image file (the whole > disk won’t be in that partition). You must > be careful when specifying the target device. > > Oh, also make sure the USB drive is not mounted when you write to it with dd. I'm sure there is a wiki somewhere (for some relatively obscure *nix distro) that cleanly and simply describes all of this with various details. But I don't know where exactly. There was a recent two-part video on YouTube (Druaga1) about him trying to set up an old Apple scanner. He had to make a disk from image at some point, and lots of comments were about that. Just to summarize (without testing!) some of those useful comments/suggestions, to give some better overall idea of what's available ... : dd (or) GNOME Disks (GUI) lsblk (or) fdisk -l (or) parted -l pv (or) dd status=progress sync (or) reboot unmount first cat (instead of dd to match block and sector sizes automatically) "cat imagename | pv > /dev/fd0" "watch -n5 'sudo kill -USR1 $(pgrep ^dd)'" [was that meant to be backticks??] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
