Download and directly write to a USB device

[probonopd]

Here is an alternative way to download and at the same time directly write to a USB storage device without the need to store the compressed file to local storage first, hence saving both space and time:

root@host:/home/me# wget "https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.1/FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso" -O /dev/sdX

Maybe it could be mentioned on the website.

Hello, sorry for posting on a 2 year old issue, but the image is unable to be directly written to an external drive, due to its extra LZMA compression, meaning that it needs to be stored locally, extracted, an optionally verified using sha256sum, before being written to an external drive.

Unless there's a way to automate that too, then the command you written wouldn't be usable. If there's a way to automate all of those I've mentioned above, please let me know. Thank you.

[probonopd]

Not tested yet, but maybe a pipe along the lines of wget "https://...iso.lz" -O - | lzcat - > /dev/sdX might work.