Ubuntu 18.04

[Stephen Partington]

With ether every image to USB has been valid (barring bad drive or download)

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 9:12 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:30:19 -0700
> Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
> > On 2018-06-12 14:06, Stephen Partington wrote:
> > > Generally speaking I do not use a CD/DVD to install an OS. I haven't
> > > for quite some time.  I use a combination of Rufus and etcher to
> > > write installation media to [a] USB drive.
> >
> > Wait, what?  Why would you need any utilities at all to do that?
> > Also, there are no ebuilds for "rufus" or "etcher" in a
> > recently-synced portage tree.
> >
> > All you need to do is "dd if=distroname-1.2.3.iso of=/dev/sdN
> > bs=32k", making sure that sdN refers to the USB disk you wish to
> > overwrite with the distro installation image.  BIOSes are smart
> > enough to invoke El Torito when they boot from a USB disk and see an
> > ISO or UDF image on it. At least IME.  (If YMMV, tell us details.)
> >
>
> My experience, several years ago (probably 2011) was that some distros'
> install DVD image dd'ed to a thumbdrive worked perfectly, while other
> distros' DVD image dd'ed to a thumbdrive wouldn't boot.
>
>
> SteveT
>
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