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A Visually Attractive Way of Burninng an ISO Image

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 Many devices, especially USB devices, come with embedded software drivers, apps, and other tools, such as many newer printers, especially label printers and other specialty devices, making it very convenient to install required software to make the devices actually work!  No more worrying about where to archive and/or store the driver disks often included with new hardware devices like printers & scanners.  With memory chips literally dirt-cheap, it makes sense to include it with the device!  I personally LOVE this concept, and hope all vendors and manufacturers will use this technology going forward!
-Here is my real-life example, using my really cool DYMO label printer, which has the drivers and small application installed on an embedded memory chip inside the printer.
+Here is my real-life example, using my really cool DYMO label printer, which has the drivers and small application installed on an embedded memory chip inside the printer.  The first thing to do is identify the actual "device" block/file your device uses.  There are many methods to do this, but I usually start by using the "df" command, after connecting the device with the included USB cable that came with the device, in my case, my DYMO label printer and waiting a few seconds for my Linux system to recognize and connect to the printer.
-=== '''Create an Image from a Device Connected to Your Computer - Printers with Embedded Drivers, Other Devices with Built-In Software & Apps
+Note the last line, indicating the "LM PNP" device is connected to "/dev/sda1"

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 === '''More Examples to Create ISO Image Files From Any Disk or File Structure''' ===
 * If it is a disk you are copying to an ISO image, first un-mount it, using the umount command:

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-=== '''A Visually Attractive Way of Burninng an ISO Image''' ===
+=== '''A Visually Attractive Way of Creating an ISO Image File from an Existing Disk''' ===
 This method uses the dd command along with some other command line arguments,
 to create a nice ncurses based status indicator while it creates the image, allowing you to monitor the progress of ISO image creation.

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-'''How to Determine What Your CD or DVD Drive Uses for the Mount Point'''
+=== '''How to Determine What Your CD or DVD Drive Uses for the Mount Point''' ===
 * Use the "eject" command to open the drive, and then use the "dmesg" command to view kernel messages, the last of which should be something like this:
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-'''The Best Way to Rip a DVD or CD from a Disk to an ISO File!'''
+=== '''The Best Way to Rip a DVD or CD from a Disk to an ISO File!''' ===
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 First, you need to find out some info from the physical disk, so that the image you create is "'''EXACTLY'''" the same size as the original.  Without this info, the dd command used to create the ISO image file will add two additional bytes to the end of the image file.  By first running this command to find out the block size and volume size, you can force the dd command to create the ISO image with exactly the same number of bytes the original disk has!
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-'''More Examples to Create ISO Image Files From Any Disk or File Structure'''
+=== '''More Examples to Create ISO Image Files From Any Disk or File Structure''' ===
 * If it is a disk you are copying to an ISO image, first un-mount it, using the umount command:
 (Only one of the below commands are required, depending on your system and how it automatically mounts disks)
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-* A really nice way of creating an ISO image using the dd command along with some other command line arguments,
+=== '''A Visually Attractive Way of Burninng an ISO Image''' ===
-to create a nice ncurses based status indicator while it creates the image, allowing you to monitor the progress of ISO image creation:
+This method uses the dd command along with some other command line arguments,
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 (pv -n /dev/sr0 | dd of=ISO_Image_File_Name.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc,noerror) 2>&1 | dialog --gauge "Creating ISO Image...  Please stand by..." 10 70 0
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-'''Extensions & Improvements'''
+=== '''Extensions & Improvements''' ===
 * There are several extensions to ISO9660 that relax some of its limitations:
 ** Rock Ridge supports the preservation of POSIX (UNIX/Linux-Type) permissions and long file names.
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-'''Create ISO Image from Mounted CD or DVD:'''
+=== '''Create ISO Image from Mounted CD or DVD:''' ===
 * In the example below:
 ** Replace "IMAGE_NAME.ISO" with what you want to name the ISO image file.

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-=== '''ISO Image Command Line Examples''' ===
+== '''ISO Image Command Line Examples''' ==
 '''All of these commands that access physical hardware, such as USB drives, require the use of either SUDO or becomming the root superuser!!! - In my examples, I am using the "root" user account!'''
-==== '''Creation of Bootable Flash Drive from the Linux Command Line''' ====
+=== '''Creation of Bootable Flash Drive from the Linux Command Line''' ===
 This is the BEST, MOST reliable method to "burn" an ISO image to a USB Flash Drive or even a hard disk or blank DVD/CD!
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 The command immediatelly outputs this information.  Your information will differ slightly due to different ISO image file names, etc.:
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 1867513856 bytes (1.9 GB, 1.7 GiB) copied, 1 s, 1.9 GB/s
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 ==== '''Creation of Bootable Flash Drive from the Linux Command Line''' ====
 This is the BEST, MOST reliable method to "burn" an ISO image to a USB Flash Drive or even a hard disk or blank DVD/CD!
 In this example, I have booted a laptop with the Knoppix Live distribution, which I use often for diagnostic and repair type work.
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 knoppix@Microknoppix:~/Downloads$ dd if=./Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-1.14.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
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 The command immediatelly outputs this information.  Your information will differ slightly due to different ISO image file names, etc.:
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 2295853056 bytes (2.3 GB, 2.1 GiB) copied, 200.027 s, 11.5 MB/s
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-When done, eject the newly burned disk with using the eject command, shown here, assuming the same DVD/CD burner drive, /dev/sr0
+When done creating the newly created disk ISO image file, eject the physical disk using the eject command, shown here, assuming the same DVD/CD burner drive, /dev/sr0
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 eject /dev/sr0