Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick
Control: tags -1 + pending Ben Hutchings, le Thu 18 Sep 2014 16:58:56 +0100, a écrit : As people are still making this mistake, I would suggest explicitly saying The image must be written to the whole-disk device and not a partition, e.g. /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1. I have commited it, thanks. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick
Package: installation-guide-amd64 Severity: normal In Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide in section 4.3.1 Preparing a USB stick using a hybrid CD or DVD image [1] it says: # cp debian.iso /dev/sdX # sync Unfortunately i used /dev/sdb1 spenting a couple of hours trying to figure out why my mobo would boot my usb flash with the debian image resulting in the thread: ''USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo''[2] in the debian-user list where after some messages a friend send me an analytical example [3] understanding my error which in short was that i wrote the image to a partition not to the whole drive. So i think that it'd be helpfull the aforementioned 4.3.1 paragraph to have a warning of caution to use the name of disk not partition. I know that in better days with less fatique and more time i could have think of my mistake but under pressure i blindly followed the manual substituting the 'X' with what ever i like. Alexandros Prekates http://librebytes.gr -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org