Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher
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Flatpack? You are using Linux and you need "iso writers"? Is your dd broken, son?
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Seeing progress, too
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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.
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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.
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I used it less than a week ago for a Mint install, worked fine.
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Because of the risk of accidentally wiping the main drive if you're just copy pasting stuff
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Ventoy uses several blobs without any instructions of compiling them yourself?
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Just use
dd. It's not that hard. You pass it 2 arguments:if=the file you want to flash, andof=the destination. If you're feeling fancy, pass in somestatus=progress. And don't forget to prepend it withsudo. That's it. -
If you actually read the post, you would have known, it's fine, but there are some privacy concerns with it:
“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”
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If you actually read the post, you would have known, it does work, but there are some privacy concerns with it:
“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”
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I just tried this the other day and was unable to boot from the USB. any chance you could shed some light on what i might have screwed up?
The command was:
dd if=fedora.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M status=progressThe USB stick was notounted and the fedora image was verified. The command completed successfully but I couldn't boot from it. When I used fedora writer to burn the same image to the same USB stick it booted no problem.
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Dang, nice! I've been using dd for nearly 30 years and have never seen that. I actually used to used dcfldd because it had better progress reporting than dd (and supported repeated patterns for input). Thanks for sharing!
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Wow, I was not aware of that. I really liked balena. Thankfully, I haven't been using it since installing Mint.
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I seriously DGAF who knows which Mint edition I installed or the brand of flash drive I used.
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This sounded like a techy Ron Swanson.
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Don't use Fedora myself, but it may not be a hybrid ISO that becomes bootable when written... so I looked and you are missing a flag
dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M status=progress oflag=direct
From https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-and-using-a-live-installation-image/
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Did you make sure that the
ofis correct?lsblkto make sure.If your sure it wrote to the right drive i would make sure that you have a good download. Did you run your checksums?
I think fedora works with secureboot but you might want to disable it just to see if that is the issue. I believe you can reenable it after install.
Make sure to go into the bios and boot from external drive/usb.
Out of 15 years of using
ddi have never had a problem. -
I did verify with
lsblk, with a listing before and after plugging in the stick to be absolutely sure.I also did verify the checksum of the ISO.
I'll double check SecureBoot, but as I mentioned, the same ISO written to the same stick with Fedora writer did boot in the same machine it wouldn't boot from with the
ddversion.I know it's something I did or didn't do to make it work correctly, so this is not me trying to dunk on
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Ah! Thank you! I knew it was something I screwed up!
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You didn't screw up, you beautifully proved why the CLI is never a simple solution.
