On 16/07/2015 22:01, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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 >
I've only ever had two kinds of problem with unetbootin: Not waiting long enough for the write to complete. This is real easy when using corporate-gift-keyring type USB sticks (the thin ones without a USB-A casing around the connectors and no activity light Writing to one particular SanDisk product with a fancy Windows specific magic-sauce-protect-firmware, this stick does not boot no matter what I write it with. So as long as 1 use my eyeballs and keep my thinking cap on, unetbootin works OK for me. A reliable dd that always works would be first prize though -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
