On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >> unetbootin to do the magic though. > > I highly recommend using the ArchLinux ISO, which can be burned to a > flash drive with dd. It doesn’t have the gentoo-specific tools, but > that’s really the only problem. UNetBootin has always been hit or miss > for me. > > Alec
Thank you both. Let's see if Alan is right and Neil offers a magic dd recipe. When this is over I will update the wiki or at least add a comment for the authors to consider. This was my first time using a flash drive. I presume that burning a CD-R from the still works. Right? allan
