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