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 694B013877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C56CE0ACC; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:51:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F91E0A8C for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E65F927CF3 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:51:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:51:10 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140901095110.5bd3d426@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140831205527.4ea565c2@joel.rcfcuxp.local> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <20140831180648.GA4505@syscon2> <20140831205527.4ea565c2@joel.rcfcuxp.local> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/vAtqRvqo6koLLzqHlK5NI/z"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 071df713-fc17-48dc-9c4c-eee0018a4957 X-Archives-Hash: a6efa1bba57ebb31c4062638ffe7f310 --Sig_/vAtqRvqo6koLLzqHlK5NI/z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 -0400, Will Tomlinson wrote: > # dd if=3D/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=3D/path/to/usb-drive bs=3D4096 > # sync >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Remember that the Titanic was built by experts, and the Ark by a newbie --Sig_/vAtqRvqo6koLLzqHlK5NI/z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQEM4MACgkQum4al0N1GQPA3gCdGY4TYaOF8KPe5xDARrL7kUW3 mK0An2xAbVKx+qKdYA4waaHutKomc0A0 =y1va -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/vAtqRvqo6koLLzqHlK5NI/z--