A question about burning USB stick

[Basil Chupin]

On 08/01/2011 20:38, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>> On 8 January 2011 01:07, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>>> On 07/01/2011 23:58, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> I have an image that I wish to burn to a USB stick using dd.
>>>> The command I am going to use to
>>>> burn it is
>>>> sudo dd if=myfile.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=10M
>>> I do not understand what you really mean by doing a "burn to a USB
>>> stick". One burns a DVD or a CD but not a flash drive.
> Basil, you don't really "burn" a CD / DVD either or do you set it on
> fire? (SCNR)

Cute.


> I think from the context you quoted (the dd command) it is clear what
> Colin intended to do.

Not really.

I sent Colin this URL to see if it would provide him with the info he wants:

http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html

as well as this one:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/


BC

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