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 A7AE013877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 23:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B6A7E0CAE; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 23:51:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail146c7.megamailservers.com (mail768.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.78]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C4CDE0C9F for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 23:51:31 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail146c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s81NpNt9024835 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 19:51:24 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C9F3920027E; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 17:51:29 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 17:51:29 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140901235129.GI15640@syscon7> 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> <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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140901230346.4aa8ecd0@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020207.54050683.0032,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=Tqzf2lnh c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=SuFnMd4Av3cA:10 a=-sCtj0qjysgA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=QLmIqwcaAphIlwx4574A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Archives-Salt: 745ad031-9bcd-4e6c-b951-642644dc8e5d X-Archives-Hash: a2bc7df3dc591f911b2957b86d6c8b6e On 09/01/14 23:03, 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... > > >-- >Neil Bothwick > >I thought the 10 commandments were multiple choice. Yes, I did use "sync" after "dd" makes no difference. -- Joseph