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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 details building a custom Linux distro that automatically streams data from curl directly to a block device using a wget | dd pipeline.

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