Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread Joseph
I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. df -h /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa /dev/sda1 * 2048 7864319 3931136 b W95 FAT32 while usb not mounted: dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 440 bytes (440 B)

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread Will Tomlinson
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. df -h /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa /dev/sda1 * 2048 7864319 3931136 b W95 FAT32 while usb not mounted: dd

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread wraeth
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 Will Tomlinson wrote: ... the handbook when you have the minimal install disc, but just about any Linux live CD will work as long as the architecture matches (chroot from x86 to amd64, for example, will not work). Anyway, if this is not what you are trying to do,

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread Joseph
On 08/31/14 20:55, Will Tomlinson wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. df -h /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa /dev/sda1 * 2048 7864319 3931136 b W95 FAT32 while usb

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread wraeth
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:06:46 Joseph wrote: I run it on 1MB USB stick, it did not work: Just to clarify: a 1MB USB stick? Surely you don't mean an actual USB stick with 1MB capacity...? dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096 sync I think the dd will work with