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Hacker News Mar 24, 2026 at 10:06 Developer Tools

curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd

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The author outlines how they built a custom Linux distribution that uses a curl command redirecting to /dev/sda to automatically download and write data with wget and dd.

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