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→‎Creating the USB stick on OS X: added "conv=" parameter to dd string, plus a comment
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: ''Where diskX is your USB device name.
 
: ''Where diskX is your USB device name.
 
* Write the ISO to the USB device and make sure buffered data is written to disk.<br />'''WARNING! Be sure to pick the right device as you might destroy your system when wrong!!'''''
 
* Write the ISO to the USB device and make sure buffered data is written to disk.<br />'''WARNING! Be sure to pick the right device as you might destroy your system when wrong!!'''''
  dd if=FILENAME.ISO of=/dev/diskX
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  dd if=FILENAME.ISO of=/dev/diskX conv=sync
sync
   
: ''Again where diskX is your USB device name.
 
: ''Again where diskX is your USB device name.
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The dd command can take a long time, so be patient. The 670MB image transferred to an older USB 2.0 device took about seven minutes.
    
== Usage ==
 
== Usage ==
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