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 60FA713877A for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 21:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB33E0CAE; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 21:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (mail-wg0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90773E0C32 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2014 21:59:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id a1so5902581wgh.2 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:59:24 -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=+QwVw2QTgdIZel+Q9NBfXv1DxEqUB0pTmSUAcOMUcWY=; b=vwIuwvNGfGyK73jIOvUH9ao+p40aFT6PNt/NID17pil2jLSO5LK4T7Mrqq1BfXvQ/d Srvo2A8q6Yci9AYvQvKZ+NGqwSiIOALOrJGyK14VVM9P04oPQxDVD7/RUj6UKBiRutxu tpQDGl0PPF4RmfFhv/cU0IjRhsCGAQOQvjTKonKLTy8KNqPhrV7MyUNsq6GsIzpbVsba EXB9Ua36AeNurNgLgC41ZUJ7Ajf2QDLwSwR6F2RgBmR7dXAJpD9xvq2fpQEYeDKz7tHF vlaZ2c6rHkxl8EjRoUFp3hMf4N6kn6EbtEi/6oXotgFpUj0kQ+3d1doEkOmPhfmZ12lK tHfw== X-Received: by 10.180.80.225 with SMTP id u1mr23822319wix.69.1409608764264; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-190-183.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.190.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id xn15sm29165050wib.13.2014.09.01.14.59.22 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:59:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5404EBF9.6050601@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 23:58:17 +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> <20140901095110.5bd3d426@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <9656274.IeHv5j4dDW@nemesis> <20140901162922.GF15640@syscon7> <20140901185337.GB1718@defunct.ch> <20140901211314.63fe9e3e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140901211314.63fe9e3e@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e487c5d-a338-4217-94cd-6f4cdb2ced69 X-Archives-Hash: 5485af5627b1b92e262967816238e242 On 01/09/2014 22:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 20:53:37 +0200, Christian Kruse wrote: > >>> I had the minimal ISO on a usb stick so it can be done. >> >> No, the current minimal ISO image can't be dd'ed to an USB >> stick. Tried it yesterday for a fresh install on a new box, it doesn't >> work. > > 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' -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com