Rufus, is a windows based application and I have yet to find anything
better for dealing with windows iso writing.

etcher is very clean and is just a touch more graceful than using dd (for
me)

https://etcher.io/

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2018-06-12 14:06, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
>> Generally speaking I do not use a CD/DVD to install an OS. I haven't
>> for quite some time.  I use a combination of Rufus and etcher to
>> write installation media to [a] USB drive.
>>
>
> Wait, what?  Why would you need any utilities at all to do that?  Also,
> there are no ebuilds for "rufus" or "etcher" in a recently-synced portage
> tree.
>
> All you need to do is "dd if=distroname-1.2.3.iso of=/dev/sdN bs=32k",
> making sure that sdN refers to the USB disk you wish to overwrite with the
> distro installation image.  BIOSes are smart enough to invoke El Torito
> when they boot from a USB disk and see an ISO or UDF image on it. At least
> IME.  (If YMMV, tell us details.)
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