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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
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if your usb is /dev/sdg, then you use "of=/dev/sdg"
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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.
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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.
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Eh, sorry, please ignore me. I got the USB boot to work.
Heh heh
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