From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Install from USB stick; here's how
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:07:57 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l07ert$322$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130904050056.GB27776@waltdnes.org
On 2013-09-04, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:13:29PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>>
>> IIRC, the last time I tried 'cp' it worked just as well as 'dd'
>>
>> cp install-x86-minimal-20121213.iso /dev/sdb
>
> Interesting. I assume that /dev/sdb was not mounted.
Correct. I wouldn't really depend on this -- if 'cp' tries to do
something smart with sparse data, or if the image isn't an even number
of 512-byte blocks, it might not work.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 3:05 [gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how Walter Dnes
2013-01-07 13:08 ` Bruce Hill
2013-09-03 17:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 20:33 ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-03 21:16 ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 20:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 21:19 ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 21:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 22:13 ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-04 5:00 ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-04 14:07 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2013-09-04 8:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-04 9:17 ` thegeezer
2013-09-04 19:41 ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-04 21:59 ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-06 20:21 ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-07 12:31 ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-07 23:57 ` Walter Dnes
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