If you want to install Linux on a desktop, you'll first have to create a bootable USB drive with your distribution of choice.
  • macniel@feddit.de
    15·
    10 个月前

    The only thing you would have achieved that was would be to copy an iso file onto your stick. EFI or Boot doesn’t know how to do anything with it.

    • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      51·
      10 个月前

      A lot of Linux ISOs are hybrid images which can be booted if flashed directly to a USB stick.

      • macniel@feddit.de
        13·
        10 个月前

        Op was just using cp to copy the iso onto the drive no flashing or anything…

            • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              4·
              10 个月前

              This works because block devices like /dev/sdX are just files. If you cp a file onto another file, it overwrites the data of the destination with the source. A block device represents the device itself, not the filesystem; if you wanted to put the ISO inside the filesystem, you’d have to mount it first.

              • macniel@feddit.de
                1·
                10 个月前

                Next time I’ll test out another distro I’ll try just that… Sadly I just hopped yesterday from Fedora 40 to LMDE.