Re: Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick

[Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>]

Hi,

On 18-09-2014 16:58, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]

> As people are still making this mistake, I would suggest explicitly
> saying "The image must be written to the whole-disk device and not a
> partition, e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1."

Proposal based on your suggestion:

 The CD or DVD image you choose should be written directly to the USB 
stick,
overwriting its current contents. For example, when using an existing
GNU/Linux system, the image must be written to the whole-disk device
and not to a partition (e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1), after having made
sure that the stick is unmounted, do as follows:

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Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo