Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-31 Thread Chris Schanzle via CentOS
On 1/29/20 12:34 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: Sorry for the noise... My machine must not be working. I copied the iso to another machine, did the same command as always and worked just fine. not sure what is up with my normal box. Has always worked before. [problem with my subscription, sorry if th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-30 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
I'd be a bit careful with that one Joakim. If dd throws an error for any reason the sync will not run and your USB may be in a partially written state for some time. Since it is not mounted, there is no umount command to sync for you. If you pull the stick out shortly after the dd command wa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-29 Thread Joakim Dellrud
I usually use the command "dd if=iso of=usbdevice status=progress && sync" On Wed, 29 Jan 2020, 18:36 Erick Perez - Quadrian Enterprises, < epe...@quadrianweb.com> wrote: > That happened to me several times > My USB was "burned" and never displayed new data copied to it. > By "burned" I mean the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-29 Thread Erick Perez - Quadrian Enterprises
That happened to me several times My USB was "burned" and never displayed new data copied to it. By "burned" I mean the flash drive was faulty up to a point where it always showed a phantom image of what WAS in the pen drive. But YMMV On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 11:56 AM J Martin Rushton via CentOS <

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Sorry for the noise... My machine must not be working. I copied the iso to another machine, did the same command as always and worked just fine. not sure what is up with my normal box. Has always worked before. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-29 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
What's your dd command? Are you sure you are writing to the raw disk and not inside a partition? On 29/01/2020 16:30, Jerry Geis wrote: Well after a closer look - Seems like the OLD 8.0 iso image is still on the USB. Not the new 8.1 I have tried to redo the dd command to copy the 8.1 iso - I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Well after a closer look - Seems like the OLD 8.0 iso image is still on the USB. Not the new 8.1 I have tried to redo the dd command to copy the 8.1 iso - I get no errors - but it still comes up with the 8.0 I then tried to remove the partitions, save and recopy. still same old boot menu. Is ther

[CentOS] CentOS 8 on USB disk

2020-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
I did the dd if=CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso of=/dev/sdd to a 16G USB disk then tried to use it on an install. The installer said invalid install media. Any way to verify if the "write" to disk was good ? I got no errors on the dd. I did re-download the iso and did a diff and there was no diff.