Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick

2014-09-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
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,

Bug#762024: installation-guide-amd64: Please add caution warning to instructions to create a usb bootable stick

2014-09-17 Thread Prekates Alexandros
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