<div dir="auto">With ether every image to USB has been valid (barring bad drive or download)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 9:12 PM Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:30:19 -0700<br>
Matt Graham <<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 2018-06-12 14:06, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
> > Generally speaking I do not use a CD/DVD to install an OS. I haven't<br>
> > for quite some time. I use a combination of Rufus and etcher to<br>
> > write installation media to [a] USB drive. <br>
> <br>
> Wait, what? Why would you need any utilities at all to do that?<br>
> Also, there are no ebuilds for "rufus" or "etcher" in a<br>
> recently-synced portage tree.<br>
> <br>
> All you need to do is "dd if=distroname-1.2.3.iso of=/dev/sdN<br>
> bs=32k", making sure that sdN refers to the USB disk you wish to<br>
> overwrite with the distro installation image. BIOSes are smart<br>
> enough to invoke El Torito when they boot from a USB disk and see an<br>
> ISO or UDF image on it. At least IME. (If YMMV, tell us details.)<br>
> <br>
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My experience, several years ago (probably 2011) was that some distros'<br>
install DVD image dd'ed to a thumbdrive worked perfectly, while other<br>
distros' DVD image dd'ed to a thumbdrive wouldn't boot.<br>
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SteveT<br>
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