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This is very cool! I have one suggestion with your readme. For someone who has used dd and is familiar with what needs to be done to check and change the value
by natch 8y ago
This is very cool!
I have one suggestion with your readme. For someone who has used dd and is familiar with what needs to be done to check and change the value of /dev/sdX in your example before using it, this has all the information I need, and it's great that you included a "please be careful" line.
But my suggestion is you might add just one or two more lines of explanation for newbies who might wonder what part of the command they should take care with, and how to check the device name. You really do already have a lot of the necessary information here, I'm just saying that for newbies, given the high stakes of potentially destroying a disk or a system, you might add just a tiny bit more to clarify that when you say "drive" you mean the same thing as "device" and when you say "select" you don't mean select the drive in the UI such as by using the mouse, you instead mean specify the right device in the command line.
NOTE: Please be very careful with this command. If you
select the wrong drive you will lose data.
Get a USB, check the device name and do:
sudo dd if=cv.pdf of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=2880
where X is your device.
Edited example line(s):
Get a USB, check the device name (on Linux, for
example, by using sudo fdisk -l before and after
inserting the device and comparing the output to
see how the system identifies the newly plugged
in device) and do:
I would agree with anyone who said that newbies are not your target audience for this. But in the spirit of open source there are always people out there learning and your project will be fascinating to some of them.