LIveUSB creator fails

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sun Oct 25 01:54:52 UTC 2009


Steven Stern wrote:
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> At the very end of the process, LiveUSB creator fails. It's writing to a
> freshly partitioned and formatted (fat32) 4GB SansCruzer stick.
> 
> The logged error is:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of="/media/disk/LiveOS/overlay-FEDORA-2B11-C4EB"
> count=-163 bs=1
> M
> dd: invalid number `-163'
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
Tell us what that -163 was intended to do... Or show the command line you used, 
maybe?

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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