On 11/25/18 4:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Slow it down. There are instructions on the ISO to write it to a USB stick.
If you mount the iso you can read about your options in the
usb-and-pxe-installers folder on the installation media.
There are a few different options.
- raw DD
- using the iso2usb script on the iso.
It sounds like your write using dd was incomplete. This can happen, so try
it again like so:
$ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
When I ran that it didn't take very long, but it completed, and I was
able to eject it and try and boot from it. I just get a blank screen
after telling it to boot from the USB stick. Do I need to wipe the USB
stick in some way before trying that again?
If it fails, mount the iso and run the script to create the USB installer
as follows:
$ mount ~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso /mnt
$ sudo sh /mnt/usb-and-pxe-installers/usbimg2disk.sh -f -s /mnt/ -o /dev/sdc
dick@ENU-1:~/Desktop/Slack-work$ sudo sh
/mnt/usb-and-pxe-installers/usbimg2disk.sh -f -s /mnt/ -o /dev/sdc
*** Not a block device: '/dev/sdc' !
dick@ENU-1:~/Desktop/Slack-work$
While I can drill down into the iso and find usb-and-pxe-installers, I
can't read the .TXT files in there. What's the trick to doing that?
If both of these fail to produce something that boots properly, then your
download is probably bad. A bad download can be verified easily, you don't
need to go through someone else's third party download.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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