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Creating a Arch Linux live USB is easy. In this post, I will walk you throughdownloading and verifying the image, finding your USB drive and copying theimage onto it, all from the convenience of the command line.
Download image and PGP signature
Download the latest Arch Linux image from https://www.archlinux.org/download/.The preferred option is to download the image using BitTorrent, in order not toburden the Arch servers unnecessarily.
Verify downloaded image
If this disk is being created on an Arch Linux system, you could alsoinvoke:
The -v
switch is short for --verify
.
Insert USB drive and check the device name
The -l
is short for --list
, and will display the device names andpartition tables.
Output will look like:
Check the output and find the device name of the USB (for instance/dev/sdc
). Make sure this device is not mounted, otherwise thenext command will fail. Also make sure you note the device name, andnot a partition (indicated by a numeral at the end: /dev/sdc1
, forexample).
Copy Arch Linux image to USB drive
Breakdown:
if
indicates the input file (the.iso
of the live Linux distro).of
, likewise, points to the output file, which is a device in thiscase. Note that/dev/sdX
needs to be replaced with the device namewe found in the previous step.bs=64K
indicates the block size, which means thatdd
will readand write up to 64K bytes at a time. The default is 512 bytes. Itreally depends what the optimal block size is, but severalsourcesindicate that 64K is a good bet on somewhat modern to modernhardware.oflag
stands for “output flag”. Thesync
flag will make surethat all data is written to the USB stick when thedd
commandexits, so it will be safe to remove the USB stick.status=progress
indicates the level of information that is printedduring file transfer.progress
shows periodic transfer statistics.
Notice that the device does not need to be partitioned or empty beforethis operation. When dd
writes to a device rather than a partition,all data on the drive – including partitions – will be erased anyway.
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