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Create Live USB from ISO on command line

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Published on 25 Apr 2020

Identify the USB drive

> lsblk | grep sda
sda                   8:0    1  14.3G  0 disk
└─sda1                8:1    1   1.4G  0 part  /media/alexander/Linux Lite 4.8

Dismount the USB stick

sudo umount /dev/sda1

Create live USB from ISO

sudo dd bs=4M if=/home/alexander/ISO/elementaryos-5.1-stable.20200405.iso of=/dev/sda1 conv=fdatasync status=progress