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 ABF1113877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2037E0CAD; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:03:58 +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 D4430E0CA1 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:03:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3E3122347B for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 23:03:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 23:03:46 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140901230346.4aa8ecd0@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5404EBF9.6050601@gmail.com> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <20140831205527.4ea565c2@joel.rcfcuxp.local> <20140901095110.5bd3d426@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <9656274.IeHv5j4dDW@nemesis> <20140901162922.GF15640@syscon7> <20140901185337.GB1718@defunct.ch> <20140901211314.63fe9e3e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <5404EBF9.6050601@gmail.com> 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_/Y6lg+YXYZCZHI8ipshusORj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: d6b2fac4-6bb9-42e9-be2f-0203d0cd9d01 X-Archives-Hash: 87f5594208d7ec7967ef3f98f1ba155e --Sig_/Y6lg+YXYZCZHI8ipshusORj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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... --=20 Neil Bothwick I thought the 10 commandments were multiple choice. --Sig_/Y6lg+YXYZCZHI8ipshusORj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQE7UgACgkQum4al0N1GQOm4ACdGHzyeicp8L/eflnUHCiQ20yF E8IAoJTp+X7yOAMqtosIlAcipznCN9Rv =Ko6v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Y6lg+YXYZCZHI8ipshusORj--