On 06/21/2013 01:22 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear list - > > I am trying to copy FreeDOS to a flash drive. I can't make it work.
[...] > Copy FreeDOS: > > dd if=/home/ethan/Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdb1 > 63488+0 records in > 63488+0 records out > 32505856 bytes (33 MB) copied, 1.30864 s, 24.8 MB/ Was your device mounted while you copied the image with dd? Because this would clearly result in output similar to yours listed further down. > Check Mount: > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/bkup type vfat > (ro,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro) > > Check Contents: > > rosenberg:/media# ls -la bkup > ls: cannot access bkup/%f IN (-.--s: Input/output error > ls: cannot access bkup/in a bat.ch: Input/output error > ls: cannot access bkup/ > label: Input/output error > ls: cannot access bkup/ng used.in: Input/output error > ls: cannot access bkup/ colon. > : Input/output error > ls: cannot access bkup/ry [size.] [...] As you did not write you did this and nobody suggested it yet: Do not use dd while your image is mounted. (I hope you do not find this hint useless as you probably did so anyway...) HTH Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.ohost.de/
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