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The last paragraph says,

The ISO image now uses a 'hybrid' system: it can also be copied onto an USB stick without formating it (using dd).

Does anyone know how to do this?

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DEAR GOD BE CAREFUL WITH dd! It's nicknamed disk destroyer for a reason. – Rob Oct 29 '11 at 20:49
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dd if=/path/to/your/isofile of=/your/usb/disk try this.

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should I include ~/ in path ? – weis26 Oct 29 '11 at 10:14
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@weis26: You can, ~ is just replace with the current users home directory path. Use it if either the if or of paths are in your home directory sure... – Matt Joiner Oct 29 '11 at 10:20
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@weis26 Depends on whether you want to use a relative path or absolute path. By the way, using dd would make your usb device read-only and to make it a 'normal' usb device you shall re-partition the device. – Pengyu CHEN Oct 29 '11 at 10:21
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bs=8M or so would speed this up quite a bit... also, should mention using mount to see what disk is mounted at /media/83... – Kimvais Oct 29 '11 at 10:26
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