Re: Cannot run from live USB on laptop

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

On 14/02/15 10:09 PM, Richard Nelson wrote:

Greetings,

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Jędrzej Dąbrowa <nachteil@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I wanted to install debian from a live usb. I downloaded four .iso  debian-live-7.8.0-amd64 images, with KDE, GNOME, xfce and lxde and copied them (one at once) on my flash drive, using

Can you provide the url you downloaded from?

Yes. This is important.

cp image.iso /dev/sdX

sync

I always use dd.

Be that as it may, the official Debian Installation Guide documents cp as the way to do it. There's no benefit at all to using dd vs. cp.

Ben