On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:32 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > fwiw, I've always just used dd. You need to be very sure what device > you are writing to (don't nuke your hard disk!).
My process is something like this: a) plug in new usb thumbdrive; b) check the last part of dmesg to confirm the device, e.g.: dmesg -T | tail -n 30 c) check to see if your system automounted any pre-existing partitions on the thumbdrive, using mount. If so, umount them. d) dd if=my.iso of=/dev/sdN bs=1M status=progress (where N is the lower-case letter associated with the thumbdrive, BE SURE!) e) when dd has finished, run "sync" to make sure the dirty buffers make it to the device f) when sync returns to a shell prompt, you can safely remove the thumbdrive. > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 3:03 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a startup USB stick. I opened Startup Disk Creator. > > It sees the 32 GB USB stick, but it won't put the .iso file in the > > source panel. The .iso file is only 702.5 MB, so that shouldn't be a > > problem. I've use the tool before without problems. > > > > The .iso file is slackware-live-xfce-current.iso > > > > I have another iso that Startup Disk Creator will put in the source > > panel, linuxmint-19-mate-64bit-v2.iso > > > > Any ideas what I'm missing? Does it just mean that there's something > > wrong with the file and I should download it again? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Dick Steffens > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
