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USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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dd is just 79K As simple as sudo dd if=name-of-iso.iso of=/dev/sdb status="progress" https://medium.com/@tbeach/use-unix-dd-command-to-os-bootabl... You're Welcome.

Actually you can just use cp

    cp name-of-iso.iso /dev/sdb

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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post #20

dd is just 79K As simple as sudo dd if=name-of-iso.iso of=/dev/sdb status="progress" https://medium.com/@tbeach/use-unix-dd-command-to-os-bootabl... You're Welcome.

Actually you can just use cp cp name-of-iso.iso /dev/sdb

If you care about showing the progress

    pv  /dev/sdX
Is a more portable way to do that, as "status=progress" is a GNU modification to dd, as I recall. Of course the most portable is to use one of the POSIX mainstays like cat or cp.

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

#24
post #20

dd is just 79K As simple as sudo dd if=name-of-iso.iso of=/dev/sdb status="progress" https://medium.com/@tbeach/use-unix-dd-command-to-os-bootabl... You're Welcome.

Actually you can just use cp cp name-of-iso.iso /dev/sdb

    cat foo.iso > /dev/sdb

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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post #3

YES. This is the replacement open-source GUI USB imager app I have been waiting for. > 500KB vs 210 MB Essentially this is a 99.99999% reduction of disk space and run-time usage with the same functionality which really puts its electron garbage counterpart to infinite shame. There is no contest here. Feel the satisfying moment of removing this 'balenaEtcher' bloatware and replace it with a true, efficient and magnifi…

Balena means whale, btw.

Not sure why one would choose it, when there are so many options.

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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Related projects I know of (might be useful if someone can point out salient differences): - Rufus: https://rufus.ie/ - UNetbootin: https://unetbootin.github.io/ - Win32 Disk Imager: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

- YUMI https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

- Ventoy https://www.ventoy.net

usbimager_1.0.4-i686-win-gdi crashes without error and leaves a USB corrupt (works fine again after a format)

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

#27

Related projects I know of (might be useful if someone can point out salient differences): - Rufus: https://rufus.ie/ - UNetbootin: https://unetbootin.github.io/ - Win32 Disk Imager: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Win32DiskImager has been my go-to writer (for Windows hosts) for a decade now. 44MB and does the job exactly the way I want.

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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post #3

YES. This is the replacement open-source GUI USB imager app I have been waiting for. > 500KB vs 210 MB Essentially this is a 99.99999% reduction of disk space and run-time usage with the same functionality which really puts its electron garbage counterpart to infinite shame. There is no contest here. Feel the satisfying moment of removing this 'balenaEtcher' bloatware and replace it with a true, efficient and magnifi…

Balena means whale, btw. Not sure why one would choose it, when there are so many options.

I think it is recommended on a lot of websites for making raspian images.

Re: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

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post #3

YES. This is the replacement open-source GUI USB imager app I have been waiting for. > 500KB vs 210 MB Essentially this is a 99.99999% reduction of disk space and run-time usage with the same functionality which really puts its electron garbage counterpart to infinite shame. There is no contest here. Feel the satisfying moment of removing this 'balenaEtcher' bloatware and replace it with a true, efficient and magnifi…

>balenaEtcher

It was bigger than the .img I wanted to write, and that was a whole distro!

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