Re: Install from writeable USB
On Sun 31 May 2015 at 13:56:30 -0700, Charles wrote:
> Correct. Sorry, I'm a little frustrated.
Let's see what we can do to remove the frustration
> Two directions:
>
> 1) I've found lots of solutions regarding how to refer the install process to
> a URL (web server). This is a bit of an overkill.
Fine. We'll agree with that.
> 2) I've been told repeatedly that doing a dd copy to a USB stick gives one
> the ability to create a writeable partition on the same USB stick, only to
That is correct.
> have such advice withdrawn when I point out that fdisk, gparted, and kparted
> indicate that there are four partitions (fdisk) or no partitions (gparted and
> kparted) on the USB thumb drive. Fdisk won't add a partition beyond
> /dev/sdb4, and gparted and kparted wipe out the existing (dd copy) data when
> they create a new partition.
dd an i386 netinst image to a USB stick. Now do 'fdisk -l /dev/sdX' and
post the output. 'X' can be found from the the last few lines of the
output of the dmesg command. It might be a or b etc.
Repeat for an amd64 netinst image and again post the output.
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