On 23 May at 22:01, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas <krisdoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
<my description of problems here> > > Hello, the initial command looked correct, the location of the > > device is the name of where the usb stick is in the file system > > table, open Gparted/partition editor, you should see the usb device > > and it will be something like /dev/sdb > > > > then remember to type sudo before the command, just to see if you > > need root privilege to access the device. HTH > > Just as a corollary to this, it is not necessary to format the stick > before writing it with dd. The formatting info is included in the > image. So the output file is something like sdb which is the complete > stick rather than a partition. With all this it was easy. I eventually deleted all partitions and re-ran the 'dd' command using '/dev/sdb'. As before the 8G stick did not work but the 4G stick now did. So many thanks to everyone who helped me on the way. The next step is to get a keyboard and mouse working and, hopefully, format the 8G stick to work as a read/writable drive. Once that is OK, I will attempt to get the RISC OS emulation working to provide the smallest RISC OS (Acorn) machine on the market - but not the first as others have done this before me, indeed it was seeing their results last Monday that prompted me to say I would like to try this too. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/