>> I checked on it after a few hours and it said "No space left on >> device" and the process had exited. I rebooted the system without the >> key inserted and unfortunately it came back up to the normal HD so >> nothing has been wiped. Any idea what I did wrong? > > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong device.
Bingo, right as usual! Apparently I wiped the USB stick. I ran fdisk and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small Linux on the stick. For some reason the laptop tell me "missing operating system" when I try to boot from the stick now. I need to test it on other systems. > Incidentally, if you want to use dd, adding bs=4096 speeds it up quite > significantly. Thanks, will do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 - Grant
