On Monday 01 Sep 2014 23:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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...

BTW, I bricked a USB stick when I impatiently pulled it out thinking that dd 
had finished.  I learned to be more patient and less stupid from that 
experience.

Run sync and wait for it to finish.  ;-)

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Regards,
Mick