usb bootable stick

Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com
Thu Oct 15 12:29:59 UTC 2015


On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 08:50:07 +0200 <J.Witvliet at mindef.nl> wrote:

> You wrote thatyou first mount the raw sdb device, and then do the dd to the raw device.
> What is the point of mounting in the first place?
> That is useless and even dangerous, as the system _might_ want to try to write to the mounted sdb1 filesystem.
> Just skip the mounting.

In my experience with Fedora (only), I have found that mounting is essential. Otherwise it writes to the mount point, but not the device.

Others can clarify. Perhaps little knowledge is dangerous in my case:-(

Ranjan

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> From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Ranjan Maitra
> Sent: donderdag 15 oktober 2015 1:38
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: usb bootable stick
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I would use dd. Mount your usb to (say, /dev/sdb1) and then use:
> 
> sudo dd if=boot.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M
> 
> Note: not /dev/sdb1
> 
> HTH!
> Ranjan
> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:51:33 +0200
> Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > what is the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick put of any iso file??
> > 
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> > Antonio Montagnani
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> > Linux Fedora 22 (Twenty-two)
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