Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image
On 03/05/2019 18:24, James Medeiros wrote:
> I usually use dd; the following should also work (someone jump in if
> I'm misunderstanding the question). Also second what Greg said, make
> sure your USB isn't mounted.
>
> dd if=<ISO file> of=/dev/sdf bs=8M
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:54 PM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org
> <mailto:wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > it auto-mounted.
>
> > So as root I did:
> >
> > cp <ISO file> /dev/sdf
>
> You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp. This
> may mean
> you have to turn off your auto-mounter, or (better still) just log
> out of
> your Desktop Environment entirely, and log in as root on a text
> console
> for this operation.
>
> If the device is mounted, that will interfere with the raw byte
> writing
> you're doing. The results are unpredictable.
>
Just to add that if you put status=progress at the end you should get a
progress bar as it writes, this is handy otherwise you are sitting
around for what seems ages while it writes away in the background.
Hope this helps
Paul
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