Command to create Linux Live USB

Introduction

I have created a command to create a Linux Live USB. (Reference: What is Live USB) The executable environment is macOS and Linux.

1. Installation

GitHub

$ git clone https://github.com/hiwm0126/create-live-usb.git ~/.create-live-usb
$ sudo ln -snf ~/.create-live-usb/main.sh /usr/local/bin/create-live-usb

2. How to use

Please prepare the ISO image of your favorite distribution as the ISO image specified by the argument. The example uses Peppermint. The operation is the same for macOS and Linux, but the display is slightly different, so I will introduce both.

2-1. Linux example

$ sudo create-live-usb ~/Download/Peppermint-10-20191210-amd64.iso

==============BLOCK DEVICE INFO=================

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    1  3.8G  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    1  3.8G  0 part 
mmcblk0     179:0    0 29.8G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   63M  0 part 
├─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0    1K  0 part 
├─mmcblk0p5 179:5    0   32M  0 part 
├─mmcblk0p6 179:6    0  256M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p7 179:7    0 29.5G  0 part /

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which device do you want to use?

---device name list---
sda       
mmcblk0   
----------------------

Enter the dvice name : sda　<--Enter the device name
1560281088 bytes (1.6 GB, 1.5 GiB) copied, 266 s, 5.9 MB/s 
372+1 records in
372+1 records out
1562378240 bytes (1.6 GB, 1.5 GiB) copied, 266.846 s, 5.9 MB/s

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Creating Live USB is complete.

2-2. Example of macOS

$ sudo create-live-usb ~/Download/Peppermint-10-20191210-amd64.iso

==============BLOCK DEVICE INFO=================

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     107.7 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 83.5 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.2 GB    disk1s5

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *4.0 GB     disk2
   1:                       0xEF                         2.4 MB     disk2s2


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which device do you want to use?

---device name list---
disk2 
----------------------

Enter the dvice name : disk2　<--Enter the device name
460+0 records in
460+0 records out
1929379840 bytes transferred in 324.378169 secs (5947934 bytes/sec)

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Creating Live USB is complete.

• Please execute the command at your own risk. The author is not responsible for any events that occur regarding command execution.