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 F3A7213877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:46:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91E1CE0B5E; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wraeth.id.au (wraeth.id.au [106.187.101.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B359E0B17 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:46:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail.wraeth.id.au [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wraeth.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2298614004B for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 19:50:49 +1000 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at wraeth.id.au Received: from mail.wraeth.id.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.wraeth.id.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 48SMlew5NXw4 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 19:50:48 +1000 (EST) Received: from nemesis.localnet (unknown [103.6.190.10]) by mail.wraeth.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 947F914000E for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 19:50:48 +1000 (EST) From: wraeth To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:46:34 +1000 Message-ID: <2712424.0IZL6dEcGe@nemesis> User-Agent: KMail/4.14 (Linux/3.16.1-gentoo; KDE/4.14.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140901064825.GB15640@syscon7> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <4905449.lKjXojxoda@cerberus> <20140901064825.GB15640@syscon7> 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="nextPart1718610.e9u0H8cIAl"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 54498aba-11d3-4db3-aa95-c5d40996ec53 X-Archives-Hash: 80003a6d4b2ae7751c125a4a84710df2 --nextPart1718610.e9u0H8cIAl Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 00:48:25 Joseph wrote: > In my case I was doing as root: > dd if=3D/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140529.iso of=3D= /dev/sda > bs=3D4096 sync >=20 > and the usb was unmounted. As mentioned by Alan, you haven't clarified what you meant by "1MB USB = stick"=20 =2D trying to put a ~250MB image on a 1MB stick simply isn't going to wor= k. Can you show the exact command(s) and any errors that are presented whe= n you=20 are doing this (feel free to redact any sensitive information that may = be=20 present)? =2D- wraeth --nextPart1718610.e9u0H8cIAl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EABEIAAYFAlQEQHoACgkQXcRKerLZ91lYPwD/ZhgO9BeU6UerP1o+NX10ym53 8UtVCwzHV+4dyJu48ZMA/R8kmCZZdQVvljSur3iGxZVtVSxjxWnqS8F1LBRcYLY7 =v1Ow -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1718610.e9u0H8cIAl--