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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A lot of Linux ISOs are hybrid images which can be booted if flashed directly to a USB stick.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Op was just using cp to copy the iso onto the drive no flashing or anything...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The cp command will write the ISO file directly onto the device. This is the official way that is recommended by Debian:

cp debian.iso /dev/sdX

Source: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.en.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Woah...

Damn I'm sorry for questioning this method, I didn't know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This works because block devices like /dev/sdX are just files. If you cp a file onto another file, it overwrites the data of the destination with the source. A block device represents the device itself, not the filesystem; if you wanted to put the ISO inside the filesystem, you'd have to mount it first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Next time I'll test out another distro I'll try just that... Sadly I just hopped yesterday from Fedora 40 to LMDE.