The only working PC I have is a 32-bit x86 and has a minimal Debian installation. I need to flash a USB with an ISO file from it to make a live system. I tried for a few days to get flathub or appimage working there, but just can’t. I decided an apt package would be the easiest course of action, but neither Rufus, Impress or BalenaEtcher seem to be available in default repos. It there a program that is there? A bare .elf executable with no packaging would also be fine.
I always had to look up how to use the dd command until a few years back I saw somewhere that you can literally just use cp and the results won’t be worse in any way.
cp image.iso /dev/sdXthere’s no fucking way
Real LPT in the comments.
Won’t this break if the flash drive isn’t marked as bootable?
dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=64M status=progress
Thanks, seems it worked. It should be noted that
/dev/over normal/run/media/path can be found withlsblkcommand, out of 2 with identical letter use latter with digit
I typically just ‘dd’
The ones that come to my mind that you can install from APT are:
- gnome-disk-utility
- isoimagewriter
Ventoy can handle multiple images on the same device
+1 for Ventoy. For anyone who hasn’t heard of it, the Ventoy utility sets up a USB key with a small bootable partition, then fills the rest with an exFAT partition where you can drop your ISOs. Booting from the stick just gives you a list of bootable images to choose from.
Does Ventoy still have a blob problem?
Scrolled a while and didn’t see it:
dd if=image.iso of=/dev/yourstick bs=4M ; sync
And what is yourstick? lsblk and determine by size. Use the device node, not a partition, e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1.
I’m pretty sure gnome-disks can
yup. works very well. been using it whenever an image fails to boot properly on my multiboot usb…
DD?
Worse tool for the job. cp, cat, pv, are better.
Have you tried Raspberry Pi Imager or popsicle?
As others have said,
ddwill work, or if you really want, you can download the x86 Linux AppImage file from Balena’s website, extract it, then just run it (you may need to mark it as executable first). Should work just fine, and it’ll give you the same GUI as alwaysdd
Balena Etcher has a .deb file on their GitHub releases.
https://github.com/balena-io/etcher#debian-and-ubuntu-based-package-repository-gnulinux-x86x64
Should be able to just download and double click it, on Debian.
