On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 06:27:05 -0500 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 04 January 2020 04:25:59 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 12:35:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 04 Jan 2020 at 13:00:04 (+0800), kaye n wrote: > > > > First I used gparted to format the entire flash drive to fat32. > > > > > > > > > > As Charles pointed out, anything you do before the dd is a waste > > > of time because it will be overwritten. > > > > > > > Then I executed the command in terminal: > > > > > > > > sudo dd if=debian-live-10.2.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso of=/dev/sdb > > > > bs=4M; sync > > > > > > That looks ok. > > > > It does. If someone else says "better use cp" -- they are > > equivalent. *BUT* first make sure your USB is not mounted. Those > > newfangled desktop environments will "helpfully" mount the file > > systen on your USB if there's one. Then it'll be a question of luck > > whether your dd or cp will work or not. > > > > So if you insert your stick and can "see" its files in your desktop > > environment... BE WARY. Unmount first. Ask here on how to do that. > > > > Cheers > > -- t > > I am glad this has finally come up, because in doing u-sd's for the > pi's, its a never ending battle to keep the damned things unmounted > long enough to get the dd session started. If there was an approved > way to neuter udev, or what ever is doing it, without destroying that > ability to automount later, I am all ears. We need to be able to > turn that on and off without permanently disabling it because it can > be handier than that famous button on the outhouse door. A disable > with a timeout would be ok, or an on-off switch would be even better. > Or a device specific disable until ejected and re-inserted would be > ideal. This may be Just Your Problem. My sid and stretch installations both automount USB sticks, but if I then umount them they stay umounted. I've never had one automatically remount. You may have a Really Helpful Application installed that doesn't come by default. But yes, this is an area where we could do with an application that manages automounting of random, previously unseen external drives. My network shares automount only on first access, but that requires /etc/fstab entries. Things are better than they were with the awful usbmount, but still not good. -- Joe
