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I'm trying to install Arch from a USB stick, but am having difficulties transferring the ISO to the stick
I'm attempting to use the dd command as follows...
sudo dd=4MB if=#/Downloads/archlinux-2018.05.01-86_64.iso of=/dev/sda
...but there doesn't appear to be any response!
Any ideas/suggestions please?
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dd doesn't give a progress report by default. Also are you absolutely certain that /dev/sda is the correct device? What is that # in front of the downloads path? Use the command from the wiki for progress information.
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Partial success...
The following folders/directories have have been installed on the USB stick: arch; EFI; isolinux; loader
...however, upon changing the boot order in the BIOS, the computer will not boot from the stick!
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Please tell us, with specificity, how you created the drive. The exact command given and the output.
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Command used: sudo dd bs=4M if=~/Downloads/archlinux-2018.05.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb1
The reason for the earlier failure was I was using sudo dd bs=4M if=/Downloads/archlinux.2018.05-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb1 (doh!)
There was no output as I remember - I had to look at the drive contents to see what had been placed there
Last edited by Coxside (2018-05-19 16:03:54)
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sudo dd bs=4M if=~/Downloads/archlinux-2018.05.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdb1
USB_flash_installation_media#In_GNU.2FLinux
Run the following command, replacing /dev/sdx with your drive, e.g. /dev/sdb. (Do not append a partition number, so do not use something like /dev/sdb1)
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loqs picked up on what I was looking for. If you want to make a bootable USB, you want to copy your iso to the disk, not to a partition on the disk. You copied everything to partition 1 of sdb. You want to copy the iso to sdb, not to sdb1.
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I use && sync aswell, don't know if it's necessary, like
dd bs=4M if=/path/to/whatever.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress && sync
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