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