On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:18:41 +0200 Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.balla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello, >I'm trying to write a bootable iso image (jessie live dvd) to a USB stick. >I'm running jessie with Gnome. > >This page: <https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch04s03.html.en> >says that I should first make sure what the correct device name is (done -- >df lists the stick as /dev/sdb1), then unmount the stick (done), then "cp >image.iso /dev/sdb" (I suppose as root, so I used sudo). > >That fails with this error: > >cp: cannot create regular file ‘/dev/sdb’: No medium found > >"ls -l /dev/sdb" shows this: >brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 13 16:53 /dev/sdb > >Can you please help me? > >Thank you in advance > Gerardo Having just done this, and my install is running as I type this on a different system, you have to unmount the usb drive before it works. WARNING: it destroys anything on the drive when it writes the image. Don't forget the "sudo sync" command when it finishes writing. It took quite a while to get the image written here. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com]
