Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread George N. White III
he USB drive as NTFS. You can't use dd because the Windows installer won't run from the DVD disk format when using a USB stick. > > ERROR: '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824' is not a block device > > I found this in my notes, apparently Sam Sieb suggested it as a method

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-08-14 12:51, Michael Hennebry wrote: I do not know why you expected this to be useful. You've told dd to overwrite a directory. I'm not even sure one can get a mere 4 GiB thumbdrive anymore. I think the error is actually a file size limit. ° Well you are right I am definitely doing so

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:34:29PM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > So now I did: > > [root@WS1 bobg]# dd if=/home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso > of=/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824  bs=4M > dd: error writing '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824': No space left on device > 978+0 records in > 977+0 records

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Bob Goodwin wrote: So now I did: [root@WS1 bobg]# dd if=/home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso of=/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824  bs=4M dd: error writing '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824': No space left on device I do not know why you expected this to be useful. You've to

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-08-14 12:04, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-08-14 11:39, Jonathan Billings wrote: Also, livecd-iso-to-disk is for putting a livecd image on a flash drive.  As far as I know, Windows 10 isn't a Linux liveCD.  I imagine it will fail the attempt at a checksum. ° Ok, that makes it the wrong

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-08-14 11:39, Jonathan Billings wrote: Also, livecd-iso-to-disk is for putting a livecd image on a flash drive. As far as I know, Windows 10 isn't a Linux liveCD. I imagine it will fail the attempt at a checksum. ° Ok, that makes it the wrong command to use then, the block device pro

Re: not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 11:30:24AM -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to make this work? > > [root@WS1 bobg]# livecd-iso-to-disk > /home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso /run/media/bobg/4C60-B824 > > ERROR:  '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824

not a block device -

2020-08-14 Thread Bob Goodwin
Can someone tell me how to make this work? [root@WS1 bobg]# livecd-iso-to-disk /home/bobg/Downloads/Win10_1909_English_x64.iso /run/media/bobg/4C60-B824 ERROR:  '/run/media/bobg/4C60-B824' is not a block device I found this in my notes, apparently Sam Sieb suggested it as a