On Monday 01 Sep 2014 09:51:10 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.

Also, I have seen everywhere bs=1048576 being used with the dd command for 
hybrid iso images, rather than bs=4096 or some other value.  I am not sure if 
writing a larger block size is of importance, but I mention it in case it 
makes a difference.

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Regards,
Mick