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Originally Posted by
Corona688
What instructions are you following?
There's a bunch of places online that detail how to make bootable USB drives for Linux distros like Ubuntu on Mac. I can't post a URL, because it says I need to have at least 5 posts. It seems to be the only way to do it from Mac's terminal.
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
It makes little sense to dump a raw ISO to a partition, flash drive is not CDROM. A few odd boot systems do this, but usually you'd install to a flash drive like a hard drive.
I don't quite follow you here. I guess dd stands for dump something? All I knew is the command is able to make bootable media.
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
4M is fine. The point is that it's not left at the default of 512, which would be extremely slow.
I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm looking for a bit more of an explanation. I want to be able to work out an optimal number by myself.
You said 512(M?) would be slow. What about 256? What about 1M? What about 8M? I've seen various suggestions, but not much explanation.
Hopefully that makes sense.