Re: Cannot run from live USB on laptop

2015-02-17 Thread Jędrzej Dąbrowa
I used official debian webpage to download live disc images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ I tried creating live usb again, using dd to put image on a drive (which was firstly zeroed using dd). The effect was exactly the same - system frozen on GParted. I will

Re: Cannot run from live USB on laptop

2015-02-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 14/02/15 10:09 PM, Richard Nelson wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Jędrzej Dąbrowa > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wanted to install debian from a live usb. I downloaded four > .iso debian-live-7.8.0-amd64 images, with KDE, GNOME, xfce

Re: Cannot run from live USB on laptop

2015-02-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 15/02/15 03:45 AM, Ram wrote: > Greetings, > > Whats is small zero fill? > > Erasing with 'dd if=/dev/null ...' ? I'm sure you meant to say /dev/zero! But I somehow doubt if this was Jędrzej's issue. > > if so, then > if the purpose is to erase the mbr then end with '... bs=512 count=1' > if t

Re: Cannot run from live USB on laptop

2015-02-14 Thread Ram
Greetings, Whats is small zero fill? Erasing with 'dd if=/dev/null ...' ? if so, then if the purpose is to erase the mbr then end with '... bs=512 count=1' if the purpose is to erase the first MiB give'... bs=512 count=2048' From the output device ('...of=/dev/xxx ...') be sure of what is

Re: Cannot run from live USB on laptop

2015-02-14 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Jędrzej Dąbrowa wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to install debian from a live usb. I downloaded four .iso > debian-live-7.8.0-amd64 images, with KDE, GNOME, xfce and lxde and copied > them (one at once) on my flash drive, using > > Can you provide the ur

Cannot run from live USB on laptop

2015-02-14 Thread Jędrzej Dąbrowa
Hi all, I wanted to install debian from a live usb. I downloaded four .iso debian-live-7.8.0-amd64 images, with KDE, GNOME, xfce and lxde and copied them (one at once) on my flash drive, using cp image.iso /dev/sdX sync When I boot from the USB I get the welcome screen, where I can choose to try