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On Monday 01 Sep 2014 09:51:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 -0400, Will Tomlinson wrote: |
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> > # dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096 |
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> > # sync |
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> > You don't have to mount the USB drive. Use sync to ensure that all the |
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> > data has actually been written to the device before you remove it. |
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> The ISO image has to be created as a "hybrid" image for this to work. Use |
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> isohybrid from syslinux to convert non-hybrid images. You can easily test |
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> if an ISO image is hybrid with fdisk -l, if it shows a partition table |
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> the image is hybrid. |
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Also, I have seen everywhere bs=1048576 being used with the dd command for |
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hybrid iso images, rather than bs=4096 or some other value. I am not sure if |
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writing a larger block size is of importance, but I mention it in case it |
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makes a difference. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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