Thanks for your suggestion. In fact, I discovered that the error occurred after I unmounted the usb stick from Nautilus. After I tried running "umount" from the shell, "cp image.iso /dev/sdb" did work.
Gerardo 2015-09-13 17:56 GMT+02:00 Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015...@iiita.ac.in>: > Simply extract the iso image to the usb drive. You should right click on > the iso image and the open it with disk image writer. For Debian, this > works fine. However, if your pen-drive size is much larger than the iso > size, additional partitions may be created on the drive which could be > deleted after the installation is complete. > Good luck! > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 8:48 PM, 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 >> >> > > > -- > Himanshu Shekhar > IIIT-Allahabad > IRM2015006 >
