 So here's a tech tip. Many of us know that Unix and Unix like systems such as Linux. Everything's a file. From your keyboard to your mouse to your webcam or even your flash drives can all be written to and read from in most cases like you would any other file on your system. I've even shown in the past how you can take a drive, a flash drive or an internal hard drive and you can actually use grep to look for text files that were deleted without any special recovery software. In most cases if we wanted to flash an image to a flash drive or an internal hard drive, we would use a tool like DD. So in most cases you would do something like DD, if for in file, my.iso, of for out file and you would give it your drives name. And DD is a great tool with a lot of features but if you're just copying one image to a drive you don't even need it you can just use the cat command. You'll need to be rude to do this but you can cat your ISO file right into your drive like so. And that's great and although that's less known than DD that is a fairly common piece of knowledge but think about this. If your drive is a file you can download right to that drive. Now obviously when I say download right to that drive I don't mean just download an ISO as a file to that drive you can download an ISO or an image and install to that drive with one simple W get command. So for example I have this one gig flash drive and let's say I want to install a distribution of Linux on there to run on multiple machines. I could download the ISO and then copy it over using DD or cat but let's say I don't want to download it. I just want to put it well I want to download it but I don't want to save it on my computer. I just want to put it directly on the flash drive and for either I just don't want to or maybe you're just running on a system that doesn't have any storage space and you want to get that ISO on this flash drive. Let's do that and plug in my flash drive of course make sure the drive is not mounted when you start writing to it and with one simple W get command pointing out a URL I can then set the output to my drive. Of course being very careful that you pick the proper drive I'll hit enter it will start downloading the file and writing directly to that drive as soon as it's done downloading I wait to make sure that it's done writing and I pull the drive right out. Let's try that again. I pull the drive right out. Since the drive was not mounted I don't even need to un-mount it I just unplug it choose my USB drive and it starts booting and less than a minute later I have a full desktop running off that flash drive. Of course I did this with W get you should be able to use curl as well. I might avoid some of those downloaders such as Axl or Area 2 I think it's how you say that Area 2C. One of those multi-piece downloads because I'm not sure if that's going to write to the drive right where W get and curl are going to download the file sequentially probably a better idea there. So there you go you can install an ISO from the internet directly to a drive without having to save it to your computer first and without having to use any special tools just your download tool and writing directly to the drive since on Unix and Unix like systems everything's a file. Hope you found this useful. Filmsbychrist.com that's Chris with the K there's a link in the description. Thanks for watching I hope that you have a great day. I wonder if you don't even need W get or curl you could probably just use dev TCP and bash.