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Posted: **22 Nov 2015, 12:44**

Sometimes we need to transfer our downloaded iso's to USB dongles. Laptops today frequently do not have DVD drives so we need to boot "LiveCD's" from USB.

To manage this; the iso image needs to be a hybrid.

Our viking.iso is such a hybrid which means that we can use dd to "burn" it to a dongle.

To check if an image file is a hybrid you can do a:

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fdisk -l viking.iso

If the resulting lines contain the iso name - in this case viking.iso - then it is a hybrid!

If the iso is not a hybrid you can use isohybrid to turn any iso image into a hybrid.

So the next thing is to bring it on to our USB dongle then:

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sudo dd if=viking.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4k

if means in-file of is out-file and bs=4 is not necessary but it speeds up the process considerably. /dev/sdb is the address of the usb dongle which you can find with a simple

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fdisk -l

You can also use

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lsblk

or

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ls /dev/sd*

Make sure you unmount the usb before you "burn" your image to it:

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umount /dev/sdb

Once this is done you can dd your iso to the usb dongle. Make sure you have the right location because dd will format your USB. :tux5: