Sometimes you need to make a bootable flash drive from an OS distro image or something else.
The linux command-line utility dd handles this.
Example of writing a CentOS disk image to a flash drive:
sudo dd if=CentOS-6.2-i386-bin-DVD1.iso of=/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb is your flash drive’s device id.
Before you start, unmount it:
sudo umount /dev/sdb
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