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by sathackr 3319 days ago
I haven't found the command-line-fu yet(and haven't spent much time looking) to scan, save, and auto-connect to various wifi networks, and to handle my Verizon LTE 4g card. I did hunt down the scan command once but I didn't use it enough to remember what it was. something to do with ilwifi iirc.

Haven't tried DD as an ISO to CD burner...will give it a shot.

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You can only DD a bootable ISO to USB if it's been created as a hybrid ISO image. The syslinux package includes an isohybrid[1] command to convert existing non-compliant ISOs to hybrid ISOs that can boot via USB.

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[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/isohybrid

DD is good for USB but I wouldn't use on optical disks because it doesn't support burnfree aka if the buffer empties it will toast the disl