You got it right, there just doesnt want to be a 1 there, and it does not want to be mounted:
/dev/sdb :) #Warning: IT WILL WIPE THE WHOLE DRIVE!!# On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas <krisdoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe <t...@southfarm.plus.com> wrote: > >>... > >> Problem 1: the USB sticks: > >> ------------------------- > >> The 8 GB stick has no apparent fault as all the files on it can be seen > >> OK. > >> The 4 GB stick starts off as 4GB but formatting brings this down to 3.4 > >> GB and this will not hold all of Stephen Ford's image. > >> > >> Problem 2: Loading Ubuntu to the stick: > >> -------------------------------------- > >> I had originally done this on the 8 GB stick via the Windows program > >> Disk Imager which made two partitions. > >> > >> As this had not worked on the Joggler, I then tried following Stephen > >> Ford's simple instructions from his site. I unzipped (un-tar, etc) his > >> file until I was left with this: joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin > >> > >> I then wiped the stick and reformatted it. > >> > >> The problem then came with his command of: > >> dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=<your_own_device> bs=10M count=365 > >> I did not know what <your_own_device>should be translated to. So I > >> tried: > >> dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M count=365 > >> and got the response: > >> dd: opening `/dev/sdb1': Permission denied > >> > >> My second attempt was with this command: > >> dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin > >> of=/media/C/joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin bs=10M count=365 > >> and this got the response of: > >> 365+0 records in > >> 365+0 records out > >> 3827302400 bytes (3.8 GB) copied, 707.077 s, 5.4 MB/s > >> > >> As above, I put the stick in the Joggler and nothing useful resulted on > >> a reboot. > > > > Hello, the initial command looked correct, the location of the device > > is the name of where the usb stick is in the file system table, open > > Gparted/partition editor, you should see the usb device and it will be > > something like /dev/sdb > > > > then remember to type sudo before the command, just to see if you need > > root privilege to access the device. HTH > > Just as a corollary to this, it is not necessary to format the stick > before writing it with dd. The formatting info is included in the > image. So the output file is something like sdb which is the complete > stick rather than a partition. > > Colin > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ~Daniel
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