On 02/21/2018 12:22 PM, Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:39:42AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've downloaded the netinst iso with intention of copying it to a flash
drive. I've done it before without problem.
root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# dd bs=64k
if=/home/richard/Downloads/debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc
dd: failed to open '/dev/sdc': No medium found
root@debian-jan13:/home/richard# ls /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc
root@debian-jan13:/home/richard#
What's happening?
[or perhaps "What have I forgotten?"]
That's a legitimate question, but a better one(s) would be:
1) What's the output of "parted /dev/sdc"?
2) If the flash drive has a filesystem, is it mounted somewhere, or not?
3) What's the output of "smartctl -a /dev/sdc"?
4) What does show
strace dd if=.../debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=64k
5) Can one be really sure that "/dev/sdc" is a flash drive?
Reco
A variation of the "device does not always get the same /dev/???
designation". I've got another problem. After giving dd the correct
destination the install did not go as expected. I've an idea of what's
wrong but I need to run some tests. More later. Thanks
