Re: How to write live image to usb stick
On Sun 13 Sep 2015 at 17:18:41 +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to write a bootable iso image (jessie live dvd) to a USB stick.
> I'm running jessie with Gnome.
>
> This page: <https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch04s03.html.en>
> says that I should first make sure what the correct device name is (done --
> df lists the stick as /dev/sdb1), then unmount the stick (done), then "cp
> image.iso /dev/sdb" (I suppose as root, so I used sudo).
>
> That fails with this error:
>
> cp: cannot create regular file ‘/dev/sdb’: No medium found
>
> "ls -l /dev/sdb" shows this:
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 13 16:53 /dev/sdb
>
> Can you please help me?
Plug the device in. What does 'dmesg' give as the device file name?
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