<h2 id="pre-planning-and-creating-your-image">Pre-planning and creating
your image:</h2>
<ol type="1">
<li>Create your image with your preferred disk image creation tool. I
used USB Image Tool to create an image from my "golden master" Windows
11 installation thumb drive A. USB Image Tool: <a
href="https://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool"
class="uri">https://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool</a></li>
</ol>
<h3
id="prepare-your-tmux-session-on-your-linux-or-bsd-based-system.">Prepare
your Tmux session on your Linux or BSD-based system.</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li><code>'tmux new -s $sessionName'</code> to create a new Tmux session
window with a session name of your choice.</li>
<li><code>'Ctrl-B-"'</code> to create a horizontal split, putting one
pane over the other.</li>
<li><code>'Ctrl-B-%'</code> to create a vertical split, putting one pane
next to the other.</li>
<li><code>'Ctrl-B-UpArrow'</code> or <code>'Ctrl-B-DownArrow'</code> to
move to the pane you want to split if you split the window with a
horizontal line.</li>
<li><code>'Ctrl-B-LeftArrow'</code> or <code>'Ctrl-B-RightArrow'</code>
to move to the pane you want to split if you split the window with a
vertical line.</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="https://tmuxcheatsheet.com/"
class="uri">https://tmuxcheatsheet.com/</a></p>
<h3
id="duplicate-4-usb-thumb-drives-from-a-disk-image-within-your-new-split-paned-tmux-session">Duplicate
4 USB thumb drives from a disk image within your new, split-paned Tmux
session:</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>CHECK DMESG FOR THE CORRECT DEVICE NAME AND WRITE IT
DOWN!!!</strong>
<ul>
<li>FreeBSD will show dmesg output on TTYv0, or you can use the dmesg
command on Linux or BSD. You don't want to end up wiping your system
drive!</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Within your Tmux session:
<ul>
<li>Pane 1:
<code>'dd if=$diskImageName of=/dev/da0 bs=1M status=progress'</code> to
begin imaging USB thumb drive #1.</li>
<li>Pane 2:
<code>'dd if=$diskImageName of=/dev/da1 bs=1M status=progress'</code> to
begin imaging USB thumb drive #2.</li>
<li>Pane 3:
<code>'dd if=$diskImageName of=/dev/da2 bs=1M status=progress'</code> to
begin imaging USB thumb drive #3.</li>
<li>Pane 4:
<code>'dd if=$diskImageName of=/dev/da3 bs=1M status=progress'</code> to
begin imaging USB thumb drive #4.</li>
<li><code>'Ctrl-B-:'</code> to call the Tmux command prompt, followed by
<code>'setw synchronize-panes'</code> to sync the 4 panes to your
commands. The primary pane will be highlighted in red, and the secondary
panes will copy whatever command it typed into that primary pane.</li>
<li>Hit Enter to begin the process on all 4 panes.</li>
<li>When the image finishes, you can remove the USB thumbs drives, pop
in 4 more, hit the Up arrow on the primary pane to pull up the previous
commands on their respective panes, and hit Enter. When in doubt, refer
to Step 0!!</li>
<li>Repeat as needed.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<p>If you need to de-synchronize your Tmux panes, just type
<code>'Ctrl-:'</code> to call the Tmux command prompt, followed by
<code>'setw synchronize-panes'</code> to toggle pane synchronization on
and off (or you can use the up arrow at the Tmux command prompt to bring
up that previously-typed command).</p>
<p>The faster your USB ports and USB thumb drives, the better!</p>
