---
name: "mic-image-writer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mic2"
version: "0.24.12-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mic-image-writer"
---

# mic-image-writer(1)

Write a live image to a USB stick

## NAME

mic-image-writer - Write a live image to a USB stick

## SYNOPSIS

mic-image-writer \[options\] \[image file\]

## DESCRIPTION

mic-image-writer is a simple yet very helpful tool, it can help you write  a live image to a USB stick, it is safer than dd and has a good progress indicator, it has two work modes, console and GUI, you can explicitly use -c \| --console and -g \| --gui to force it to enter console or gui mode, by default, it will smartly decide this automatically.

It just writes an image to the whole USB stick, so the original data on your USB stick will be overwritten, mic-image-manager has a more powerful GUI tool for this case, it can write a live image to a specified partition, the old data on that partition will keep intact.

## OPTIONS

**-h, --help**     show this help message

**-c, --console**  Run in console mode

**-g, --gui**      Run in GUI mode

## EXAMPLES

Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:

mic-image-writer your-2.1-final.img

## EXIT STATUS

mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

## AUTHOR

Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

## SEE ALSO

[*mic-image-creator*(1)](/mic-image-creator/1.md), *mic-convertor*(1), [*mic-chroot*(1)](/mic-chroot/1.md), [*mic-livecd-iso-to-disk*(1)](/mic-livecd-iso-to-disk/1.md), *mic-image-manager*(1)