>Also not sure what's so difficult about it, I thought for the USB-stick case all you do is dd it onto the dev-node and you're good to go? IDK, maybe I'm wrong

>Also not sure what's so difficult about it, I thought for the USB-stick case all you do is dd it onto the dev-node and you're good to go? IDK, maybe I'm wrong here, like I said I prefer using CD-R discs on the very rare occasions that I need to install a new linux distro because the alternative is backing up my entire USB stick so I can overwrite it with a new FS and then restore it from backup. The real alternative is to buy a few $5 USB sticks for the express purpose of installing Linux. Trying to use the same sticks for personal data and OS installs is an unnecessary headache with so many cheap and huge USB keys around. If you want to burn CDs it should be to have more durable copies of some data, as USB keys have been known to lose data when left powered off for many months or years. I think I have never lost data that way but it is hard to tell if I did, on my oldest USB keys.