try "man dd".
The command that I use is: dd if=xxx.dd of=/dev/sdx bs=32K &pid=$!
where xxx.dd is the image file
sdx is the base node for the target device
the "%pid=$!" puts dd in the background and sets the environmental
variable "pid" to its process number. dd defaults to a very small block
size (256 bytes?). bs=32K will speed it up by about 10X.
Once the dd process is running you can check on progress with the
following command (if you included the &pid=$! in the original command):
kill -USR1 $pid
Response to the kill command is not always immediate, but dd will
eventually tell you how much has been written and how fast it is going.
Regards,
Jim Ham
Mike Travis wrote:
>
>
> yes, i unzipped it first. The file was originally .dd.bz2 I unzipped
> to get the .dd file. Is there maybe something wrong with the syntax of
> my dd command??
>
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