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Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB?



On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 6:56 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> 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.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


When I try to enter the live Debian, I get the terminal-like screen with this message:

user@debian:~# [       41.896110] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0

The installer seems to run fine although I did not proceed with the installation because I still want a usb stick that has a working Live Debian.

Thank you 

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