disk image writing

yujkore · 2023-05-03 04:53:14

This may sound stupid but here goes...

I am running Sway on a vanilla archinstall. I have since re-purposed the USB drive that I used to make this install and want to do the same thing for my laptop, but with the xorg version of qtile. However, when start the write process again for the Arch ISO, i'm getting this error message while trying to flash the USB drive:

"Errored starting flashing process: Not authorized to perform operation"

I tried using chmod and chown to see if it was an permission or file-ownership issue to no success.

I did some light research that got me trying to create config files in a polkit directory--no success.

At this point, I don't even know if i'm barking up the wrong tree trying to figure this thing out.

Any direction would help.

Thanks in advance!

seth · 2023-05-03 06:25:35

What "write process"? That's not a dd message?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_fl … _utilities

The "# " prompt indicates UID0 permissions (which you're gonna require to write onto device files)

MAKE SURE YOU'RE WRITING ONTO THE CORRECT DEVICE

Last edited by seth (2023-05-03 06:25:44)

yujkore · 2023-05-04 05:32:51

Thank you! the cat command worked as root! I was trying to use the flatpak's version of popsicle, and even tried the arch package of gnome disk utility. Before i mark this as complete, is there something that i didn't do to get the GUI utilities to work?

seth · 2023-05-04 06:00:34

UID0 privileges. GUI tools would ideally get them for some sub-process.
https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle/pull/42 suggests that support for the latter since 2018, but requires sudo or pkexec to be present.

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#1 2023-05-03 04:53:14

disk image writing

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Re: disk image writing

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Re: disk image writing

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