On Sat 04 Jan 2020 at 12:01:45 (+0000), Joe wrote: > 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. > > > > 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.
… and it turned out that a forgotten usbmount was Gene's problem: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/02/msg00538.html Cheers, David.
