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 03A5713877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 07:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6B91E0A94; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 07:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9669CE0858 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 07:19:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f175.google.com with SMTP id ho1so11974511wib.2 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:19:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8RZfvFtrTR8mspObqqQAg1SILT/TZQ1kXXPCrKpxhS8=; b=eO1LK9H1Vbbk6RCzYDfJPEfoSwH9+SlrpyutWLWRhRk27RcCADdJmrBVYikZ42b0x2 cgZmiyo9+05cq/vzYnxMHJgspNyfmfN6hMyZwzDYWNEvqSIxIfK0gSoMM9bW71Vdco4e o2b9bzo7VLErB7AkB2uSma/MHJfw+lG+C/fJFjd7iQ32lZAIQgSOORrIsIjbzq/kthnk f9oGAePI+R6HWur23wPKuRijV6sr3dx3T3T7eCNZ7pFDK8S3q+XxtbUdiBJvSDqJA4Q6 Oi2u/Xc0wIKfldskGVW45YRJ20ZyOWGQqZ+I/vtg8Bg/TfPE6EHk8znpEEytYskdafcH TuLQ== X-Received: by 10.180.99.167 with SMTP id er7mr19442404wib.2.1409555965995; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.40] ([41.85.145.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id h3sm19679753wjz.24.2014.09.01.00.19.24 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54041DB7.8010605@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:18:15 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <20140831205527.4ea565c2@joel.rcfcuxp.local> <20140901020646.GA15640@syscon7> <4905449.lKjXojxoda@cerberus> <20140901064825.GB15640@syscon7> In-Reply-To: <20140901064825.GB15640@syscon7> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 43b92eef-f87f-47b3-bc71-2d9444356f52 X-Archives-Hash: 6ec430f80f02d5353ac943454794f239 On 01/09/2014 08:48, Joseph wrote: > On 09/01/14 12:16, wraeth wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:06:46 Joseph wrote: >>> I run it on 1MB USB stick, it did not work: >> >> Just to clarify: a 1MB USB stick? Surely you don't mean an actual USB >> stick >> with 1MB capacity...? >> >>> dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096 >>> sync >>> >>> I think the "dd" will work with LiveDVD but not liveCD. >> >> What path are you using for the USB drive? Are you specifying a partition >> (which you shouldn't)? >> >> As a working example: >> >> dd if=/home/wraeth/iso/install-amd64-minimal-20140529.iso of=/dev/sdc >> bs=4M >> sync >> >> -- >> wraeth > > In my case I was doing as root: > dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140529.iso > of=/dev/sda bs=4096 > sync > > and the usb was unmounted. > You didn't respond to the question if you really have a 1 MEGABYTE stick -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com