Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick.
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- Subject: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick.
- From: Alexandros Prekates <aprekates@openmailbox.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:46:07 +0300
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In 4.3.1. Preparing a USB stick using a hybrid CD or DVD image [1]
it says:
# cp debian.iso /dev/sdX
# sync
Unfortunately i used /dev/sdb1 spenting a couple of hours
trying to figure out why my mobo would boot my usb flash with
the debian image resulting in the thread:
''USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo''[2]
in the debian-user list where after some messages a friend send
me an analytical example [3] understanding my error which in short
was that i wrote the image to a partition not to the whole drive.
So i think that it'd be helpfull the aforementioned 4.3.1 paragraph
to have a warning of caution to use the name of disk not partition.
I know that in better days with less fatique and more time i could have
think of my mistake but under pressure i blindly followed the manual
substituting the 'X' with what ever i like.
Alexandros Prekates
http://librebytes.gr
[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg00786.html
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg00800.html
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