Kent West composed on 2017-11-07 10:58 (UTC-0600): > I wanted to create a Live Debian USB stick (using an existing Debian ... > found it on /dev/sdc, and ran the command: > > sudo [dd] if=debian-live-9.2.0-amd64-cinnamon.iso of=/dev/sdc
> I walked away then and came back in a few minutes How few? > to find it had finished, How did you make that determination? IME, writing an iso to a USB stick can take an obscene length of time, finishing *long* after the command prompt returns if you have a lot of RAM to read the iso into before the stick can be written to. Was the stick's activity LED off before you tried accessing it or rebooting? > but didn't pay attention to any other messages, and then tried booting it > on another year-old Dell PC. It gave me the grub menu, but then when I > tried to boot Debian Live, I got an error about an invalid magic number and > a need to load a kernel first. Maybe the bad magic number resulted from writing less than the whole iso file to the stick?.... -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
