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CaptainKirk

Member

Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 391

Bootable USB Question

It says on

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … NU.2FLinux

to do

dd bs=8M if=image.img of=/dev/sd[x]

but I don't know what X is in my case. Here's what I do know:

[kirk@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3             24027656   8310412  14496708  37% /
none                   1037068       176   1036892   1% /dev
none                   1037068         0   1037068   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1               186663     10788    166238   7% /boot
/dev/sdb5             96124904  22043292  69198660  25% /srv
/dev/sdb6            183475692  88826272  85329312  52% /home
/dev/sdg1               987696      5376    982320   1% /media/disk

What I want is the USB in /dev/sdg1. Seems I must unmount it first, which I know how to do.

But what is my of= ?

Thanks

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Bootable USB Question

if your usb is /dev/sdg, then you use "of=/dev/sdg"

CaptainKirk

Member

Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 391

Re: Bootable USB Question

It worked

[kirk@localhost ~]$ dd if=archlinux-2009.08-core-i686.img of=/dev/sdg
744973+0 records in
744973+0 records out
381426176 bytes (381 MB) copied, 607.972 s, 627 kB/s

but my PC (spare machine) won't boot from it. I have a feeling it may be due to the PC itself. It has no working CD.

The only Windows-based installer I know of is Wubi. I guess I could do that and then I could always install Arch from that OS. I think.

I also found http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ and it appears from a few posts like this http://www.debian-administration.org/us … /weblog/29 that it works. Debian sounds better than Ubuntu.

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Bootable USB Question

have you checked your bios to make sure you can boot from usb? sometimes you have to change the priority around so that it tries to boot from the usb before the regular hard drive.

CaptainKirk

Member

Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 391

Re: Bootable USB Question

Eh, sorry, please ignore me. I got the USB boot to work.

Heh heh