From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:51:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140901095110.5bd3d426@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140831205527.4ea565c2@joel.rcfcuxp.local>
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 -0400, Will Tomlinson wrote:
> # dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096
> # sync
>
> You don't have to mount the USB drive. Use sync to ensure that all the
> data has actually been written to the device before you remove it.
The ISO image has to be created as a "hybrid" image for this to work. Use
isohybrid from syslinux to convert non-hybrid images. You can easily test
if an ISO image is hybrid with fdisk -l, if it shows a partition table
the image is hybrid.
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Neil Bothwick
Remember that the Titanic was built by experts, and the Ark by a newbie
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-30 5:37 [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Joseph
2014-08-30 6:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-30 6:32 ` Joseph
2014-08-30 7:08 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-31 18:06 ` Joseph
2014-09-01 0:55 ` Will Tomlinson
2014-09-01 1:28 ` wraeth
2014-09-01 2:06 ` Joseph
2014-09-01 2:16 ` wraeth
2014-09-01 6:48 ` Joseph
2014-09-01 7:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-01 15:44 ` Joseph
2014-09-01 8:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-09-01 15:45 ` Joseph
2014-09-01 9:46 ` wraeth
2014-09-01 9:32 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-01 16:00 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 11:20 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-01 8:51 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-09-01 9:13 ` Mick
2014-09-01 10:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 9:42 ` wraeth
2014-09-01 9:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 16:29 ` Joseph
2014-09-01 16:38 ` Christopher Jones
2014-09-01 16:41 ` Christopher Jones
2014-09-01 19:12 ` Joseph
2014-09-01 20:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 18:53 ` Christian Kruse
2014-09-01 19:50 ` Will Tomlinson
2014-09-01 23:42 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 0:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 0:26 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 5:36 ` Mick
2014-09-02 5:55 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 6:23 ` Dale
2014-09-02 7:21 ` Christian Kruse
2014-09-02 7:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 8:00 ` Dale
2014-09-02 9:56 ` Mick
2014-09-02 10:16 ` Dale
2014-09-02 13:10 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 13:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 9:38 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2014-09-02 13:38 ` thegeezer
2014-09-02 14:10 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 14:40 ` Peter Humphrey
2014-09-02 14:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 16:16 ` thegeezer
2014-09-02 22:32 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-09-02 14:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-02 16:50 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 17:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 18:12 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 21:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 18:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-02 21:55 ` Walter Dnes
2014-09-02 12:29 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-09-01 20:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 21:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-01 22:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 22:14 ` Mick
2014-09-02 22:27 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-09-02 22:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 22:49 ` Dale
2014-09-01 23:51 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 0:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 0:29 ` Joseph
2014-09-02 0:36 ` wraeth
2014-09-02 9:48 ` Christian Kruse
2014-09-01 20:05 ` Neil Bothwick
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