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| author | Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io> | 2023-10-27 16:08:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io> | 2023-10-27 16:08:26 +0200 |
| commit | 3c2efe61dc6a6919e667bf70616da7819352431f (patch) | |
| tree | d37f5660c04312a626f41b4f15cb0c565d69888e /nixos/doc/manual/installation | |
| parent | 7f7c22b3470bb6e09f6e782764c2064731afcb55 (diff) | |
docs/installation-usb: add more flags to dd
oflag=direct is faster for writing because it by-passes the page cache status=progress shows speed and progress
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/doc/manual/installation')
| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-usb.section.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-usb.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-usb.section.md index adfe22ea2f00e..3b9e2f492f04d 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-usb.section.md +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/installation/installing-usb.section.md @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ select the image, select the USB flash drive and click "Write". 4. Then use the `dd` utility to write the image to the USB flash drive. ```ShellSession - sudo dd if=<path-to-image> of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync + sudo dd bs=4M conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress if=<path-to-image> of=/dev/sdX ``` ## Creating bootable USB flash drive from a Terminal on macOS {#sec-booting-from-usb-macos} |