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Re: Putting It All On a Stick



On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 11:17:59 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:

'fdisk -l /dev/sdX' will show a partition table (as described by Thomas
Schmitt). A 21GB image will not fit on a 16GM USB stick.


> How would I know for sure if it's ISO hybrid, and how would it fit on
> a standard 16GB drive? Guess it wouldn't, unless there was a great
> deal of extra space appended at the time the thing was created which
> could be truncated/removed. Actually, I strongly suspect that's true
> because  the temp file that was created as soon as the process started
> was expanded to 20.9GB and never changed, so it's probably full of a
> lot of 0's toward the end.
> 
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:12:44 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> >On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 10:37:22 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> >
> >Thanks for that; I was thinking of doing it. 21GB seems closer to 4 to
> >55555 DVDs than 3.
> >
> >The image is should be an isohybrid one. Put it on a thumbdrive with
> >cat, cp or dd. For example:
> >
> >cat ISO > /dev/sdX
> >
> >X is a, b, c etc. Obtain X from the output of dmesg.
> >
> >The USB device will be bootable.
> >
> >> For those who want to try this, the size of the Iso I got from the
> >> Jigdo build far exceeds a 16GB stick. It's reported as 20.9GB. I
> >> suppose I'll have to use one of my prized 32GB USB3 thumbdrives for
> >> this test.
> >> 
> >
> 


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