Re: Dangerous course of action suggested by USB boot instructions?
Hello Lorenzo,
Am 2005-11-14 14:03:27, schrieb Lorenzo Colitti:
> Hi,
>
> the debian-installer documentation at:
>
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s04.html
>
> states that to copy the disk image to the USB stick you must do:
>
> ># zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
Which is right.
> Please consider changing this to /dev/sda1. This is a much safer choice
> because it's what all other OSes (and some BIOSes) expect.
No, sda1 is a partition but sda the disk. Because the USB-Image is a
Disk-Image which IS bootable, it is required to be copied to /dev/sda.
> I used the /dev/sda method and it trashed my USB stick (MuVo V200). Its
> partition table was gone (which was not obvious to me: the image might
> have contained a partition table too). Booting didn't work. In the end I
It contain a partition table.
> was able to recover somewhat with fdisk and mkdosfs, but now the stick's
> transfer rate is down to 7 kB/s, which is *not* funny... :(
? - This is not a problem with Debian GNU/Linux.
> Regards,
> Lorenzo
Greetings
Michelle
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