Bug#1118254: marked as done (installation-guide-amd64: Problem on "debian.org" DebianInstaller USBCreateMedia web page)
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regarding installation-guide-amd64: Problem on "debian.org" DebianInstaller USBCreateMedia web page
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Package: installation-guide-amd64
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: thomas.kragh@math.uu.se
Dear Maintainer,
On the web page https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CreateUSBMedia it is said that one can copy the debian.iso file directly to the media using:
sudo cp debian.iso "$TARGET_DEVICE"
However, "cp" reports the error:"cp: cannot create regular file '/dev/sdb': No medium found"
I searched around a bit and found that one should use the command "dd" instead.
However, it seems like you should change this to a working solution.
Regards,
Thomas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.12
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-40-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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Hello,
Thomas Kragh, le ven. 17 oct. 2025 12:00:24 +0200, a ecrit:
> On the web page https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CreateUSBMedia it is said that one can copy the debian.iso file directly to the media using:
>
> sudo cp debian.iso "$TARGET_DEVICE"
>
> However, "cp" reports the error:"cp: cannot create regular file '/dev/sdb': No medium found"
>
> I searched around a bit and found that one should use the command "dd" instead.
dd would get exactly the same error.
> However, it seems like you should change this to a working solution.
The problem is TARGET_DEVICE, which has to be the device path of the USB
key, which the manual cannot know what it is exactly on your system. dd
would have the same issue (and is more complex to use while cp will just
work fine)
Samuel
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