On Lu, 11 oct 21, 12:56:28, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > kaye n wrote: > > Using GParted, I created an MS-DOS partition table and formatted the USB > > stick in fat32. > > This is not necessary and will be overwritten by your next step: > > > sudo cp debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-standard.iso /dev/sdb > > sync > > This is a correct procedure and is supposed to do what is needed. > The fact that booting works confirms that you did it right. > > > stuck in a black terminal-like screen where it says, I/O error, etc. > > Maybe your USB stick is not good. > Do you get i/o errors when you read the whole stick by: > > dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null > > (Depending on size and speed of the stick this can last long. > If your dd is young enough you get entertaining progress messages by > adding two more options: > > dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null status=progress oflag=dsync > ) > > If the stick is not plain bad, then you will have to show the messages > which you see when booting gets stuck. Either as hand-copied text or > as screen photo which you upload to some site like pastebin.com. In > the latter case post a link to your uploaded photo. In addition to what Thomas wrote, you might also want to try the live image including firmware. https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/ It's unlikely to fix whatever I/O errors you encountered, but it might help with other issues you didn't encounter yet ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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