Hi, kaye n wrote: > Using GParted, I created an MS-DOS partition table and formatted the USB > stick in fat32.
This is not necessary and will be overwritten by your next step: > sudo cp debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-standard.iso /dev/sdb > sync This is a correct procedure and is supposed to do what is needed. The fact that booting works confirms that you did it right. > stuck in a black terminal-like screen where it says, I/O error, etc. Maybe your USB stick is not good. Do you get i/o errors when you read the whole stick by: dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null (Depending on size and speed of the stick this can last long. If your dd is young enough you get entertaining progress messages by adding two more options: dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null status=progress oflag=dsync ) If the stick is not plain bad, then you will have to show the messages which you see when booting gets stuck. Either as hand-copied text or as screen photo which you upload to some site like pastebin.com. In the latter case post a link to your uploaded photo. Have a nice day :) Thomas
