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 2A3EF13877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:14:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FA7DE0CA7; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:14:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f179.google.com (mail-we0-f179.google.com [74.125.82.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10381E0C35 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id t60so6051522wes.10 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:14:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=lZGftL6VSOLgAZDXJed7qGTCCJYPlVQeKOA0zAaMyMQ=; b=M9B+zswqRN9/Cj0nugM32tV+SMg2UZeXK4W6ct4gSkYLBv3POHcDln5wX9tm2WU1fj CpXqabZpg1s89iwF80TtHQ2AZdWxcJriHiBFMRo0esntboVCDpcUhi6u2Stiu9eysCPY mUc7ccUbYveVi5AXlT+6LxoWw49Wwb3NPGuGJw1xyry19lCBJ7MiHkJ7ICm8iBUnW60I lUEOrebrDtCCxoqRhjV3/C1R6rvoHBWm0jhBceKYSuD4T2KjhcIncVF53Xu0m6fmLIX6 lsD93SoX71k8sj90BQ7gXAMT/q+3wOpcGqKeqMO2WC1uAz7wx2DsptMpcQJFLUKd/UaZ gqHw== X-Received: by 10.180.95.135 with SMTP id dk7mr4203484wib.68.1409609657696; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id t9sm4913785wjf.41.2014.09.01.15.14.16 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:14:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 23:14:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.14.14-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <5404EBF9.6050601@gmail.com> <20140901230346.4aa8ecd0@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140901230346.4aa8ecd0@digimed.co.uk> 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; boundary="nextPart4101267.leQLpfQIu4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201409012314.11795.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 65d7ae74-9696-4ce1-bf5b-2fcd65572f4c X-Archives-Hash: 2464fc9b9c0a1c6dc0f7477045287766 --nextPart4101267.leQLpfQIu4 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? > >=20 > > 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' >=20 > 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 d= d=20 had finished. I learned to be more patient and less stupid from that=20 experience. Run sync and wait for it to finish. ;-) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart4101267.leQLpfQIu4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJUBO+zAAoJELAdA+zwE4Ye9vkIAMCo4IusVrg/k95hNCQuFBa3 UylC+c5JotU2tJHlwjox4pgPTLUjzEA/2P/sHY/4EK+6RzNkqAU/03vfHT8gmAer TobGsfIU2+aRdOIEL7FRyk2peKSI8kgDIwQ8jRrRXXIeb1CjxE1BvDKmvlU8/jkn F+ga47cg9TQhGMP6Ujt+jQ71D+5Bv13yL0l19gzv9qcLucU8goTbXPlTzrxmt2jA /7JrjrceDLDbhMe3IoSXifCHWJ6vWCWsCpzt+8+RnadvaC4uylu5zYv7r9TtmpZ+ YfRlS8ZWDhA5NnDK4RF44ruVGs0ZWW8ppjZ6WGHEY/J+CB/k1bKwIPjaEXGAp3g= =wcBs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4101267.leQLpfQIu4--