On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 7:14 PM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Lu, 11 oct 21, 12:56:28, Thomas Schmitt 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. > > In addition to what Thomas wrote, you might also want to try the live > image including firmware. > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/ > > It's unlikely to fix whatever I/O errors you encountered, but it might > help with other issues you didn't encounter yet ;) > > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Andrei are you suggesting I use either of the two found here? https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.1.0-live+nonfree/amd64/ What's the difference between bt-hybrid/ and iso-hybrid/ Thank you
