Le 26/06/2018 à 05:43, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 07:25:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
Le 25/06/2018 à 20:23, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
I used dd to copy the installer iso to a USB stck on my old laptop:
dd bs=4M if=devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress &&
sync
Then I moved the USB stick to my new Purism laptop, powered it up,
pressed esacpe to get a boot menu, and the USB stick was not recognised
as a boot device.
Is there something that needs to be done to the ISO before putting it on
the USB stick? Or is the dd command wrong? I remember that years ago
it had to be modified somehow in order to boot, but I thought that had been
fixed long
long ago. Something like prefixing it with a recognisable boot record?
Sorry for not testing this in the beta days, but I didn't have the new
computer yet.
It seems you did it all well. Either your BIOS does not support
reading an iso9660 filesystem from an USB stick, or you just need to
allow it to boot from USB (in the BIOS menu). BTW, sync is useless:
dd is a synchronous connand, AFAIK.
It will boot the Purism installer from a USB stick if I use the same
steps, starting wth the Purism ISO file, of course.
Not sure what's happening then. Maybe you made a mistake. You could
just retry.
Since usb sticks with dozens of GB are available now, I'd suggest
you copy the full install DVD instead of the netinst. I suggest you this
also because this is what I've done with ASCII, therefore I've checked
it works.
Using the netinst made sense for me when it was an alternative to
burning a set of CDs or a DVD; now, with big usb sticks, it is less usefull.
Didier
PS. What I wrote about dd being synchronous seems to be just wrong,
according to the man page. I've never invoked sync after dd, and never
had any problem though, I was probably lucky, or maybe the behaviour is
special when writing to a raw block device instead of a file.
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