On Monday 01 Sep 2014 09:51:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 -0400, Will Tomlinson wrote: > > # dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096 > > # sync > > > > You don't have to mount the USB drive. Use sync to ensure that all the > > data has actually been written to the device before you remove it. > > The ISO image has to be created as a "hybrid" image for this to work. Use > isohybrid from syslinux to convert non-hybrid images. You can easily test > if an ISO image is hybrid with fdisk -l, if it shows a partition table > the image is hybrid.
Also, I have seen everywhere bs=1048576 being used with the dd command for hybrid iso images, rather than bs=4096 or some other value. I am not sure if writing a larger block size is of importance, but I mention it in case it makes a difference. -- Regards, Mick
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