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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Install from USB stick; here's how
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:07:57 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-09-04, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:13:29PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>> 
>> IIRC, the last time I tried 'cp' it worked just as well as 'dd'
>> 
>>   cp install-x86-minimal-20121213.iso /dev/sdb
>
>   Interesting.  I assume that /dev/sdb was not mounted.

Correct.  I wouldn't really depend on this -- if 'cp' tries to do
something smart with sparse data, or if the image isn't an even number
of 512-byte blocks, it might not work.

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