Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

[Joseph]

On 09/01/14 19:42, wraeth wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:51:10 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> The ISO image has to be created as a "hybrid" image for this to work.
>
>I'm pretty sure the Gentoo minimal image is - I've been dd'ing the iso's for
>quite a while now, and it's always been a simple case of download, verify, dd.

If you burn the minimal install CD ISO image to CD it will work, but I think it will not work if one tries to put it on a USB stick. The structure is different for 
USB.

>
>Besides, running `fdisk -l /path/to/image.iso` does return a partition list
>(of one NTFS/Hidden partition) for me, using a standard unmodified minimal
>iso.

fdisk -l install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso

Disk install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso: 190 MiB, 199229440 bytes, 389120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1047d058

Device                              Boot Start       End Blocks  Id System
install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso1 *        0    389119 194560  17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

>
>It's certainly worth noting, but in this case, OP is using a minimal image
>(install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso).
>
>--
>wraeth

-- 
Joseph