Dan Kendalls' Fluff

Use use of imgs over isos

There is a part of highly technical people who prefer img files over iso files.

img files are a raw bit or bit clone of drive, whilst iso files are older and designed for writing to a CD/DVD because of this cruft they are shunned by the highest echelons of techdom.

However they are easy to work with if you use the below:

Windows - USB Image Tool

Linux -

/dev/sda is an EXAMPLE your system will be different and you must pick the right device as we are wiping it.

indentify it using lsblk
Delete all partitions on the drive e.g
sudo sfdisk --delete /dev/sda
cd into dir with img file
sudo su
cat img > /dev/sda 

Dumb things tech guys suggest: The using of dd

As explained above a img file is just raw data so can therefore be piped directly onto the usb without overhead.```