On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 6:56 PM Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > kaye n wrote: > > Using GParted, I created an MS-DOS partition table and formatted the USB > > stick in fat32. > > This is not necessary and will be overwritten by your next step: > > > sudo cp debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-standard.iso /dev/sdb > > sync > > This is a correct procedure and is supposed to do what is needed. > The fact that booting works confirms that you did it right. > > > stuck in a black terminal-like screen where it says, I/O error, etc. > > Maybe your USB stick is not good. > Do you get i/o errors when you read the whole stick by: > > dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null > > (Depending on size and speed of the stick this can last long. > If your dd is young enough you get entertaining progress messages by > adding two more options: > > dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null status=progress oflag=dsync > ) > > If the stick is not plain bad, then you will have to show the messages > which you see when booting gets stuck. Either as hand-copied text or > as screen photo which you upload to some site like pastebin.com. In > the latter case post a link to your uploaded photo. > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > sudo dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null status=progress oflag=dsync [sudo] password for kaye: 7893680128 bytes (7.9 GB, 7.4 GiB) copied, 1015 s, 7.8 MB/s 7536+0 records in 7536+0 records out 7902068736 bytes (7.9 GB, 7.4 GiB) copied, 1015.78 s, 7.8 MB/s The above seems fine, right? Also, if it matters, I CANNOT get in the live Debian (where I could use the operating system), but it seems I can run the installer (although I cancelled the installation because I want to be able to get in the live Debian).
