Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:24:00
Message-Id: 54056271.7020704@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB by Joseph
1 Joseph wrote:
2 >
3 > Yes, indeed I find it very strange as well.
4 > I just re-run the dd on my faster box.
5 >
6 > dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso
7 > of=/dev/sdb bs=4096
8 > 48640+0 records in
9 > 48640+0 records out
10 > 199229440 bytes (199 MB) copied, 318.573 s, 625 kB/s
11 > sync
12 >
13 > fdisk -l /dev/sdb
14 >
15 > Disk /dev/sdb: 960 MiB, 1006632960 bytes, 1966080 sectors
16 > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
17 > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
18 > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
19 > Disklabel type: dos
20 > Disk identifier: 0x1047d058
21 >
22 > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
23 > /dev/sdb1 * 0 389119 194560 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
24 >
25
26 I don't know if it matters or not but on one of my sticks, I get this:
27
28 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
29 /dev/sde1 * 1 3915775 1957887+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
30
31 Mine is FAT32 where yours is NTFS. Could that difference cause this
32 problem?
33
34 Dale
35
36 :-) :-)

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Christian Kruse <cjk@×××××××.ch>
Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>