Ohhh, and do not forget sudo!! On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Case <danielcas...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> 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 > -- ~Daniel
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