First, find your usb disk. You should be able to identify it by size and name using lsblk.
lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,TRAN,RM,MOUNTPOINTS
Here I see my good ol Trans-It Drive. It’s not fancy. It wasn’t even at the time it was new, but I have it and it works. Next, we run the disk destroyer dd to copy raw bytes right on to the drive.
Warning
This is a full reformat of the drive, nothing on the drive will be recoverable afterwards. I keep this drive around as a boot disk and it just changes distro occasionally.
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/omarchy-4.0.1.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync
Note
Don’t forget the bs, the default block size is so slow it will take an eternity to copy a linux iso on to a boot drive.
Installing omarchy #
I wanted to give omarchy quatro a try, here is the session to get it.
~ NO PYTHON VENV SET USING SYSTEM NVIM
❯ lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,TRAN,RM,MOUNTPOINTS
NAME SIZE MODEL TRAN RM MOUNTPOINTS
sda 119.2G SAMSUNG MZNLN128HAHQ-000H1 sata 0
├─sda1 1G 0
└─sda2 118.2G 0
sdb 7.6G Trans-It Drive usb 1
├─sdb1 5.8G 1
└─sdb2 23M 1
zram0 93.9G 0 [SWAP]
nvme0n1 931.5G Samsung SSD 980 1TB nvme 0
├─nvme0n1p1 1G nvme 0 /boot
└─nvme0n1p2 930.5G nvme 0 /var/log
/var/cache/pacman/pkg
/home
/
~ NO PYTHON VENV SET USING SYSTEM NVIM
❯ sudo dd if=~/Downloads/omarchy-4.0.1.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress conv=fsync