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Re: netinst image on USB stick asks for cdrom



On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 15:40 +0200, wert@vienna.at wrote:
> > No because netinst images generally work on USB sticks.
> > [...]
> > > [2] sudo cp *.iso /dev/sdb
> > [...]
> > Why *.iso?  Are you sure this matched only one file?
> 
> Of course *iso, what else? *img?
> But i'd be surprised if cp ever can manage that copying ....
> Because there should the 512 bit at the very beginning!
> For the information where the *iso-bootloader is expected -
> by BIOS. Or does one start with a bootloader from anywhere 
> else being able to start the image on the stick?

The #1 ISO images for x86 include an MBR containing the first stage of
syslinux, an Apple partition map and for amd64 a GPT with an EFI boot
partition containing GRUB.

So, yes, copying to the whole-disk device is right, though it is unusual
to use cp for this.

> And also keep in mind, dd only will manage sdb, never sdb1.

sdb1 is part of sdb.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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