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Every single Debian USB image I've tried to flash with dd has failed in the last few years. I have to boot up a windows virtual machine and use LinuxLive USB Cr
by pippy 13y ago
Every single Debian USB image I've tried to flash with dd has failed in the last few years. I have to boot up a windows virtual machine and use LinuxLive USB Creator to create one.
It's odd as the RaspberryPi debian image works perfectly fine.
- a-l-c-o 13y agoStrange.. I do it without problem at every install.
- pippy 13y agoI'd love to see a cross browser app, one that worked on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux that just required to to drag and drop an image and write to USB.
- lukeschlather 13y agoUbuntu's usb-creator-gtk works fine for me. I do agree it's disappointing you can't just dd it.
- dlitz 13y agoThat's odd. It should be fine, but here are some things to check: - Make sure that none of the filesystems on the USB stick are mounted before you begin. Otherwise, the filesystem drivers might corrupt something. - Use a larger block size that's a power of 2 (e.g. bs=4096k). The default is 512 bytes, which is too small. This should just speed things up, but using writes that are smaller than the actual flash erase blocks can cause a lot of extra erases, and maybe your flash stick breaks when you do that. - Run 'sync' after using dd, and wait for disk activity to finish. dd doesn't flush to disk by default. - Don't use an amd64 image on a 32-bit machine. Don't use ia64 on a 64-bit PC. - Try using synchronized I/O: sudo dd if=debian-7.2.0-i386-CD-1.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4096k oflag=sync
- pippy 13y agoThanks, I'll come back and read this next time I do it. The first thing I checked was the bit length, though it could be the file system type or the synchronized io