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Re: Can't boot from pendrive



On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:26:19 +0100, mrr wrote:

> On 24/01/2015 13:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >Hi all.
> >
> >From:
> >
> >  http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/
> >
> >I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a
> >pendrive with:
> >
> >  $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync
> 
> If you create a /dev/sdc1 partition a launch the dd on it, does it work?

This cannot work because the boot sector of the drive would not be
written to.


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