By: George Van Tuyl

George Van Tuyl — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:24:42 +0000

The dd command is what got me hooked on Linux when I was transitioning from AIX and OS/2 Warp v4 to Linux. That is how I burned my first iso image to a CD-ROM now I use a USB flash memory stick.

# dd if=slackware64-15.0-install-dvd.iso of=/dev/sda

Where /dev/sda is the USB port the USB memory stick was inserted into as seen by the last lines of the "sudo dmesg" command.

gvtlinux@Archimedes:~$ sudo dmesg

[ 4688.603949] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 4688.754424] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5571, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 4688.754431] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 4688.754433] usb 3-2: Product: Cruzer Fit
[ 4688.754434] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: SanDisk'
[ 4688.754435] usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 00000324043021141505
[ 4688.755824] usb-storage 3-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 4688.757741] scsi host2: usb-storage 3-2:1.0
[ 4689.785100] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk' Cruzer Fit       1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 4689.785551] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 4689.786276] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 15630336 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 GB/7.45 GiB)
[ 4689.788519] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 4689.788523] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 4689.788886] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4689.797168]  sda: sda1 sda2
[ 4689.797278] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

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