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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:51:33
Message-Id: 20140901095110.5bd3d426@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB by Will Tomlinson
1 On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 -0400, Will Tomlinson wrote:
2
3 > # dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096
4 > # sync
5 >
6 > You don't have to mount the USB drive. Use sync to ensure that all the
7 > data has actually been written to the device before you remove it.
8
9 The ISO image has to be created as a "hybrid" image for this to work. Use
10 isohybrid from syslinux to convert non-hybrid images. You can easily test
11 if an ISO image is hybrid with fdisk -l, if it shows a partition table
12 the image is hybrid.
13
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15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Remember that the Titanic was built by experts, and the Ark by a newbie

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Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
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