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Bootloader equivalent to Rufus
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What?
Rufus just flashes ISOs to disks. On Linux you can doo that with
But you are talking about something completely different and Ventoy does that.
Or just cat file.img > /dev/....
I think you should use dd for that?
Why? I am free to use whatever I want. This is not Microsoft Windows.
What
using dd for that is outdated info that everyone keeps blindly parroting with zero understanding why. cat is simpler and works fine.
note: both cat and dd only work for this when the image is made in a compatible way, my linux isos always work fine but a windows iso didnt and needs a more specific tool.
cat is for writing files, dd for writing disks.
Can you explain how this can work?
No, cat is not for writing files. Cat is for reading files and directing the data to standard output.
With ">" you are directing standard output to a file, in this case a blockdevice.
Cool, need to try that
/dev/sdXis a file, and bothdd,catcan read files in full. You can even try something likezstdto compress it too.One of the nice things about
ddthough is you can see the progress with--status=progressTIL you can do that with udisksctl. How can you do that?
I usually just use dd or Ventoy.
I thought that was what Impression uses but it doesnt tell that anymore. So I dont know
Raspberry pi imager is supposed to be pretty good