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Better: cat ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.dmg | sudo tee /dev/sda1

• laumars 11y ago
  I know you meant to use the pipe instead of redirection, but it might be worth updating your comment for the benefit of others who are less command line literate :)
  • Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
    Whoops, fixed.
• nilved 11y ago
  Best: sudo tee /dev/sda < ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.dmg
• pedrocr 11y ago
  You better redirect tee to /dev/null otherwise your terminal is going to print out that whole file.