Re: Can't boot from pendrive
On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 16:12:52 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>
> > No restoring is needed.
> >
> > dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M; sync
> >
> > will obliterate the drive's contents.
> >
> > Note it is /dev/sdX, not /dev/sdXN. Writing to partition number N will
> > not make the drive bootable.
>
>
> The command
>
> dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; sync
>
> , if given as a normal user, gets the `permission denied',
That's fine. A user is not allowed to write directly to a disk device.
> and, as superuser,
> the complain that there's `no space left' on the device.
Is the complaint issued *immediately* after the dd command or some time
later? What is the size of the pendrive?
Please try
cat debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb
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