jpartain89
2015-11-20, 15:24
I am not sure why, but I've only ever seen one single place on all of these grand internets that said:
USE
sudo ddrescue -f /direction/to/your.iso /dev/sdxxx when making a USB or SD Card bootable disk!!
Literally, ever since I started using ddrescue, not only are all of my disks reliably and stably made, but it gives you a live action shot of it doing its thing!!
1031
Its truly been a Godsend for me, but for some unknown reason, there is like, no documentation of anyone actively using it in the wild!
So, for anyone on OS X - or Linux - who might be having issues with
dd its quite easy to get on your machine!
First, go to HomeBrew's website (http://brew.sh), and get brew installed. it adds a ton of functionality to your command terminal.
Then, once the script at the top of their page is done and you've followed their super easy directions, you do:
brew install ddrescue
and it installs ddrescue for you!
Then, you just do the code from above:
sudo ddrescue -f direction/to/your.iso /dev/sda
The
-f option is the force option, it tells ddrescue that "Yes, I want this to be placed onto my USB drive, thank you!"
And of course you need the /direction/to/your.iso, along with the mount/point/sda of where your USB stick is. (to find that in terminal, do diskutil list, then diskutil umountDisk /dev/diskx for the USB drive you wanna write to)
Yes, you do have to unmount it before you write to it.
Hopefully I didn't muddy things up too much. And of course if there's any questions lemme know.
USE
sudo ddrescue -f /direction/to/your.iso /dev/sdxxx when making a USB or SD Card bootable disk!!
Literally, ever since I started using ddrescue, not only are all of my disks reliably and stably made, but it gives you a live action shot of it doing its thing!!
1031
Its truly been a Godsend for me, but for some unknown reason, there is like, no documentation of anyone actively using it in the wild!
So, for anyone on OS X - or Linux - who might be having issues with
dd its quite easy to get on your machine!
First, go to HomeBrew's website (http://brew.sh), and get brew installed. it adds a ton of functionality to your command terminal.
Then, once the script at the top of their page is done and you've followed their super easy directions, you do:
brew install ddrescue
and it installs ddrescue for you!
Then, you just do the code from above:
sudo ddrescue -f direction/to/your.iso /dev/sda
The
-f option is the force option, it tells ddrescue that "Yes, I want this to be placed onto my USB drive, thank you!"
And of course you need the /direction/to/your.iso, along with the mount/point/sda of where your USB stick is. (to find that in terminal, do diskutil list, then diskutil umountDisk /dev/diskx for the USB drive you wanna write to)
Yes, you do have to unmount it before you write to it.
Hopefully I didn't muddy things up too much. And of course if there's any questions lemme know.