From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5385138E74 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 097A6E0AA6; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F2BE0A97 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XOMZ4-000ERJ-J6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:02:14 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:02:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1565816.gVi94MMtNJ@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.14.14-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140901064825.GB15640@syscon7> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <4905449.lKjXojxoda@cerberus> <20140901064825.GB15640@syscon7> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 643a0df5-4c2d-4859-b9c9-1c77d1589f30 X-Archives-Hash: acf509214dd6a2a474f88ecbff1d4099 On Monday 01 September 2014 00:48:25 Joseph wrote: > In my case I was doing as root: > dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140529.iso of=/dev/sda > bs=4096 sync If your USB stick is /dev/sda, what device is your root partition? -- Regards Peter