On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 23:58:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It definitely works here, and fdisk shows it to be a hybrid image. You > > are writing it to the USB device itself and not a partition on it? > every single time I've had trouble using dd and unetbootin on a usb > stick it's because I yanked it out of the socket too early. > > just sayin' Yes, you MUST run sync after dd. When I tested the minimal install image just now, dd returned after less than two seconds. sync took a little longer... -- Neil Bothwick I thought the 10 commandments were multiple choice.