Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread Joseph
On 09/01/14 12:16, wraeth wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:06:46 Joseph wrote: I run it on 1MB USB stick, it did not work: Just to clarify: a 1MB USB stick? Surely you don't mean an actual USB stick with 1MB capacity...? dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096 sync I t

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread wraeth
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:06:46 Joseph wrote: > I run it on 1MB USB stick, it did not work: Just to clarify: a 1MB USB stick? Surely you don't mean an actual USB stick with 1MB capacity...? > dd if=/path/to/minimal-install.iso of=/path/to/usb-drive bs=4096 > sync > > I think the "dd" will work wit

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread Joseph
On 08/31/14 20:55, Will Tomlinson wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 Joseph wrote: I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. df -h /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa /dev/sda1 * 2048 7864319 3931136 b W95 FAT32 while usb not mounted: dd if

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread wraeth
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:55:27 Will Tomlinson wrote: > ... > the handbook when you have the minimal install disc, but just about any > Linux live CD will work as long as the architecture matches (chroot > from x86 to amd64, for example, will not work). Anyway, if this is not > what you are trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread Will Tomlinson
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 Joseph wrote: > I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. > > df -h > /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa > > /dev/sda1 * 2048 7864319 3931136 b W95 FAT32 > > while usb not mounted: > > dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-31 Thread Joseph
I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. df -h /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa /dev/sda1 * 2048 7864319 3931136 b W95 FAT32 while usb not mounted: dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 440 bytes (440 B) copi