Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher

[fauxliving@lemmy.world]

cat is the tool of distinguished gentlemen

[rozz@lemmy.sdf.org]

Thanks for trying.

I'm not against terminal, but I'd just have to look up commands every time that I rarely use.

[osrsneedsf2p@lemmy.ml]

for Windows

[xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works]

Balenaetcher has, for me at least, failed to write to USBs for the last 3 years or so that I've tried to use it - meanwhile random iso writers from flatpak have been more reliable for me. Very obnoxious that so many iso related sites recommend it. Rufus, kicks tons of ass, if for whatever reason you're still on windows.

Also on most distros I've tried, the disk utility has some sort of right click or context menu that gets you a 'restore disk image' button that works great as well.

[fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de]

dd status=progress can also tell you how far along the operation is.

[fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de]

Or gnome disks, which also adds an "open with 'write to drive'" option to isos and images

[meshuggah333@beehaw.org]

From what I could gather, they're taken from Fedora and OpenSUSE. They're signed blobs for secure boot support.

[qualifiedkitten@lemmy.world]

I used it because that's what the instructions on the Linux Mint website for creating a bootable USB stick from Windows say to do.

I have no clue what "electron wrapper", "dd", or "rufus" are. I'm trying to learn more, but can't learn it all in one day.

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html#in-windows-mac-os-or-other-linux-distributions

[mwa@lemm.ee]

Meh i find it slow.

[nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Not using Ventoy in 2025?

[rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml]

Thanks, that's good to know, but for raw-writing a bootable image to a device do you (or anyone reading) know if there are also straightforward powershell commands for mapping devices at the block level? (as opposed to mounting at filesystem level)

[euphoma@lemmy.ml]

cp command works well too

[tja@programming.dev]

Flatpack? You are using Linux and you need "iso writers"? Is your dd broken, son?

[tja@programming.dev]

Seeing progress, too

[lime@feddit.nu]

weird that the installation guide is hosted on a separate website that hasn't been updated in eight years. that's irresponsible of them. anyway rufus is a better version of etcher that you can download for windows.

[purplemeowanon@lemmy.ml]

The article was about Windows. And, no, I'm not on Windows. i use GrapheneOS on my phone and triple-boot Arch/Debian/Fedora on my laptop. I'm just making the point that the article was about Windows so replying with UNIX commands doesn't really make sense.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

I used it less than a week ago for a Mint install, worked fine.

[wispy2891@lemmy.world]

Because of the risk of accidentally wiping the main drive if you're just copy pasting stuff

[utubas@lemm.ee]

Ventoy uses several blobs without any instructions of compiling them yourself?

[andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just use dd. It's not that hard. You pass it 2 arguments: if= the file you want to flash, and of= the destination. If you're feeling fancy, pass in some status=progress. And don't forget to prepend it with sudo. That's it.