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What does the dd command do?
If I make a copy with the "dd" command from a block device say 8 GB to a 16 GB block device, the content of the first device is copied to the second device until it is full? (that is, until ...
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How to make bootable flash from ISO with DD?
I have downloaded ALT Linux rescue ISO and wrote it to my flash stick with
sudo dd if=regular-rescue-latest-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sda1
Unfortunately, it doesn't boot on my old computer. I tried USB-HDD,...
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Format flash drive without partitions
I'm trying to format a flash drive with a FAT partition to use in my car stereo, but running into a small problem. I've tried making it all one big FAT 16 partition, and the stereo won't accept it. ...
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DD copy prematurely reports "no space left on device". Beyond hardware failure, what could have caused that?
I have an embedded device booting from SD card with 8GB internal flash (enumerating at /dev/mmcblk1). I used to be able to manipulate the flash just fine (as in, I know that it is actually 8GB and ...
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Why won't bootable DVD image files burned on USB stock boot?
Suppose I have DVD iso file.
As far as I understand, these non-hybrid iso files don't contain GPT or MBR ar the beginning, instead they have their own speciffic file system and some partition table. ...
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How do I test a USB drive using `dd`?
I've bought a 32GB USB stick, but I have doubts if it's not faulty... formatted as NTFS, writing speed easily falls to ~40 kbps, which means copying even relatively small (a few hundred MB) data can ...
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cannot boot kali usb
I downloaded - from http://www.kali.org/downloads/ - Kali Linux 32 bit ISO
and then sha1sum-ed.
blkid shows my usb on /dev/sdc1
then
dd if=<path-to-kali.iso> of=/dev/sdc
(I have also ...
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USB Flash over {H,S}DD
I have task to use 32Gb flash as place to install OS, so PC without hard drive load flash and can work(Not LiveUSB!). Of course, I can use generic install algorithm, but I have already a computer with ...
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