Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Tod Merley
What of the device firmware, boot capability contained therein, performance optimization contained in the section between the front of the drive and the start of the provided partition, and and crazy often auto-mount firmware “CD-ROM” provided as a method of device software availability and

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:24:22 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/16/2015 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > I don't know and I am not an expert. However, from experiment, observation > > and inference, I have noticed that unless the usb is mounted, dd does not > > copy to

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:44:20 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/15/2015 09:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > No, I would not think so. But if the device is not mounted, would it not > > write to the mount point, especially because you are doing so as root (so > > nothing to stop you).

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/16/2015 05:35 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:24:22 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 10/16/2015 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> I don't know and I am not an expert. However, from experiment, observation >>> and inference, I have noticed that

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Tim
Tim: >> Why would anyone think that a command like: >> >> dd if=boot.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M >> >> Is going to write to anywhere else than /dev/sdb? Ranjan Maitra sent: > No, I would not think so. But if the device is not mounted, would it > not write to the mount point, especially because

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:29:51 -0400 Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:14:53PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Ranjan Maitra: > > > > In my experience with Fedora (only), I have found that mounting is > > > > essential. Otherwise it writes to the

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:37:26 +0800 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 10/16/2015 05:35 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:24:22 +0800 Ed Greshko > > wrote: > > > >> On 10/16/2015 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >>> I don't know and I am not

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:14:53PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Ranjan Maitra: > > > In my experience with Fedora (only), I have found that mounting is > > > essential. Otherwise it writes to the mount point, but not the device. > > > > Why would anyone think that a command like: > > > > dd

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/16/2015 02:14 PM, Tod Merley wrote: What of the device firmware, boot capability contained therein, performance optimization contained in the section between the front of the drive and the start of the provided partition, and and crazy often auto-mount firmware “CD-ROM” provided as a

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Tod Merley
[Rick Stevens wrote:] If you are unlucky enough to get stuck with a USB thumb drive that has U3 stuff on it, generally they've got it stuffed so that a normal write to those blocks won't work unless you do some "magic" and delete the U3 stuff first. If you don't, writing your bootable ISO to it

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-16 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/16/2015 02:36 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:44:20 -0700 Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/15/2015 09:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: No, I would not think so. But if the device is not mounted, would it not write to the mount point, especially because you are doing so

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
Antonio M wrote: > what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any iso > file?? I found that Fedora LiveUSB Creator worked OK for me if I chose the copy or dd option when installing Fedora-22beta. It didn't work if I chose the default option. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
njan > > -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org > [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Ranjan Maitra > Sent: donderdag 15 oktober 2015 1:38 > To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: usb bootable stick > &g

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.10.2015, Antonio M wrote: > what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any iso file?? isohybrid image.iso cat image.iso > /dev/sdx -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

RE: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread J.Witvliet
- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Ranjan Maitra Sent: donderdag 15 oktober 2015 1:38 To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: usb bootable stick Hi, I would use dd. Mount your usb to (say, /dev/sdb1

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Tim
wrote: >> You wrote thatyou first mount the raw sdb device, and then do the dd >> to the raw device. >> What is the point of mounting in the first place? >> That is useless and even dangerous, as the system _might_ want to try >> to write to the mounted sdb1 filesystem. >>

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
> Ranjan Maitra: > > In my experience with Fedora (only), I have found that mounting is > > essential. Otherwise it writes to the mount point, but not the device. > > Why would anyone think that a command like: > > dd if=boot.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M > > Is going to write to anywhere else

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/16/2015 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > I don't know and I am not an expert. However, from experiment, observation > and inference, I have noticed that unless the usb is mounted, dd does not > copy to the device. (This happened as recently as last week). Sure it does [root@meimei

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/15/2015 09:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: No, I would not think so. But if the device is not mounted, would it not write to the mount point, especially because you are doing so as root (so nothing to stop you). This logic seems to make sense to me, and indeed is what happens when I have

usb bootable stick

2015-10-14 Thread Antonio M
what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any iso file?? -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : amontag52 Linux Fedora 22 (Twenty-two) inviato da Gmail -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-14 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I would use dd. Mount your usb to (say, /dev/sdb1) and then use: sudo dd if=boot.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M Note: not /dev/sdb1 HTH! Ranjan On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:51:33 +0200 Antonio M wrote: > what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-14 Thread Porfirio Andres Paiz Carrasco
2015-10-14 16:51 GMT-06:00 Antonio M : > what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any iso file?? > The easiest way to create a bootable usb stick is using fedora live usb creator: dnf info liveusb-creator-3.14.2-1.fc22.noarch # To read info. For

Re: usb bootable stick

2015-10-14 Thread Jack Craig
fedora's live-creator has always worked well for me. YMMV On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Antonio M wrote: > what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any iso > file?? > > -- > Antonio Montagnani > Skype : amontag52 > > Linux Fedora 22