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On Monday 01 Sep 2014 23:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 23:58:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > It definitely works here, and fdisk shows it to be a hybrid image. You |
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> > > are writing it to the USB device itself and not a partition on it? |
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> > every single time I've had trouble using dd and unetbootin on a usb |
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> > stick it's because I yanked it out of the socket too early. |
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> > just sayin' |
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> Yes, you MUST run sync after dd. When I tested the minimal install image |
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> just now, dd returned after less than two seconds. sync took a little |
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> longer... |
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BTW, I bricked a USB stick when I impatiently pulled it out thinking that dd |
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had finished. I learned to be more patient and less stupid from that |
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experience. |
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Run sync and wait for it to finish. ;-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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