Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:45:44
Message-Id: 20140901154555.GD15640@syscon7
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB by Peter Humphrey
1 On 09/01/14 09:02, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 >On Monday 01 September 2014 00:48:25 Joseph wrote:
3 >
4 >> In my case I was doing as root:
5 >> dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140529.iso of=/dev/sda
6 >> bs=4096 sync
7 >
8 >If your USB stick is /dev/sda, what device is your root partition?
9 >
10 >--
11 >Regards
12 >Peter
13
14 Root is on hda3 (it is an old box).
15
16 df -h
17 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
18 /dev/hda3 28G 19G 7.3G 73% /
19 /dev/hda4 84G 57G 24G 71% /home
20
21 --
22 Joseph