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.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
sudo dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null status=progress oflag=dsync
[sudo] password for kaye:
7893680128 bytes (7.9 GB, 7.4 GiB) copied, 1015 s, 7.8 MB/s
7536+0 records in
7536+0 records out
7902068736 bytes (7.9 GB, 7.4 GiB) copied, 1015.78 s, 7.8 MB/s
The above seems fine, right?
Also, if it matters, I CANNOT get in the live Debian (where I could use the operating system), but it seems I can run the installer (although I cancelled the installation because I want to be able to get in the live Debian).