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From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 13:12:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140901191249.GG15640@syscon7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA999A27-E5D6-4CCD-A21B-061B00BDEA1C@gmail.com>

On 09/01/14 12:41, Christopher Jones wrote:
>
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 1, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones1216@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I had the minimal ISO on a usb stick so it can be done.
>>
[snip]

Some ISO images already have the appropriate boot sector; for example, Arch Linux ISOs. In this case, all you need is to write the image using dd ... of=/dev/sda or 
similar. 

But if the ISO image is not specially prepared (like Gentoo minimal ISO's) to be used from a USB drive, you need to copy the .iso file to the disk as an 
ordinary file – mount, cp, all that – and install a bootloader such as Syslinux or lilo or GRUB. 

Unfortunately the instruction on Gentoo Wiki is missing something, so it doesn't work either.

-- 
Joseph


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01 19:12 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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