On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 11:17:59 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: 'fdisk -l /dev/sdX' will show a partition table (as described by Thomas Schmitt). A 21GB image will not fit on a 16GM USB stick.
> How would I know for sure if it's ISO hybrid, and how would it fit on > a standard 16GB drive? Guess it wouldn't, unless there was a great > deal of extra space appended at the time the thing was created which > could be truncated/removed. Actually, I strongly suspect that's true > because the temp file that was created as soon as the process started > was expanded to 20.9GB and never changed, so it's probably full of a > lot of 0's toward the end. > > On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:12:44 +0000, you wrote: > > >On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 10:37:22 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > > > >Thanks for that; I was thinking of doing it. 21GB seems closer to 4 to > >55555 DVDs than 3. > > > >The image is should be an isohybrid one. Put it on a thumbdrive with > >cat, cp or dd. For example: > > > >cat ISO > /dev/sdX > > > >X is a, b, c etc. Obtain X from the output of dmesg. > > > >The USB device will be bootable. > > > >> For those who want to try this, the size of the Iso I got from the > >> Jigdo build far exceeds a 16GB stick. It's reported as 20.9GB. I > >> suppose I'll have to use one of my prized 32GB USB3 thumbdrives for > >> this test. > >> > > >