I use dd to write iso images to usb drives. Even though the manual (which might not be maintained anymore) says use cp I never have and I recommend using dd instead.
On 4 March 2017 at 10:21, Slim Amamou <slim.ama...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: live-image-gnome-desktop > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate > *** > > * What led up to the situation? > I downloaded the live install image from here > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/ > > then tried to create a bootable USB flash drive using it > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > I copied the the image to the device as described in the manual > > $cp debian-live-8.7.1-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso /dev/sdb > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > The USB flash drivecan't boot (the partition does not even show up) > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > Expected it to boot > > * Identified problem > > After inspection of the flash drive, it seems the created partition type is > Hidden HPFS/NTFS > > * Fix > > I changed the partition type to HPFS/NTFS/exFAT using fdisk > > *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.7 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-0.bpo.1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > >
