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Bootloader equivalent to Rufus (lemm.ee)

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I've been trying to find a linux programming similar to Rufus to flash images of OSes on a thumb drive.

Nothing from the listicles on the internet or the programs in flatpak have worked for me as well as Rufus on Windows.

What have you used that's worked well? Or, could I run Rufus on my linux machine with WINE?

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[–] Nibodhika 9 points 6 months ago

Personally I have a USB drive with Ventou and have been using that for a long time.

But before that I just did a dd. Although I seem to remember someone doing a benchmark and realizing that piping the file was faster. Here's what I mean by that:

In bash you have the echo command which prints text:

echo "Hello"

Will print Hello.

In bash you can send the output of a command to a file, so:

echo "Hello" > hello.txt

Will write Hello in the hello.txt file.

In bash you can use the cat command to read files:

cat hello.txt

Will print the Hello we wrote in that file earlier.

In Linux drives are files, so if your USB drive is in /dev/sdb (DON'T JUST BLINDLY COPY THIS) you can create an image of it like so:

cat /dev/sdb > usb.iso

But also the devices are writable, so you can flash an image to a disk by doing it the other way around:

cat image.iso > /dev/sdb