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 A222913877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5F92E0B42; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:29:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail144c7.megamailservers.com (mail129c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.24]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7397E0ACA for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:29:03 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail144c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s81GStPk005304 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:28:57 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 02FFA20027E; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 10:29:22 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 10:29:22 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140901162922.GF15640@syscon7> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <20140831205527.4ea565c2@joel.rcfcuxp.local> <20140901095110.5bd3d426@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <9656274.IeHv5j4dDW@nemesis> 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9656274.IeHv5j4dDW@nemesis> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.54049ECE.00D0,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=ZcAkaKlA c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=SuFnMd4Av3cA:10 a=-sCtj0qjysgA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=TlOYFYun1YoMTPhm-TQA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Archives-Salt: 7e8ce4e5-c33f-48b2-b9cb-aa23c85df1d2 X-Archives-Hash: a589de09ef5075e68dd191560da96add On 09/01/14 19:42, wraeth wrote: >On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:51:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> The ISO image has to be created as a "hybrid" image for this to work. > >I'm pretty sure the Gentoo minimal image is - I've been dd'ing the iso's for >quite a while now, and it's always been a simple case of download, verify, dd. If you burn the minimal install CD ISO image to CD it will work, but I think it will not work if one tries to put it on a USB stick. The structure is different for USB. > >Besides, running `fdisk -l /path/to/image.iso` does return a partition list >(of one NTFS/Hidden partition) for me, using a standard unmodified minimal >iso. fdisk -l install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso Disk install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso: 190 MiB, 199229440 bytes, 389120 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x1047d058 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso1 * 0 389119 194560 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS > >It's certainly worth noting, but in this case, OP is using a minimal image >(install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso). > >-- >wraeth -- Joseph