With ether every image to USB has been valid (barring bad drive or download) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 9:12 PM Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:30:19 -0700 > Matt Graham 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 > > Steve Litt > June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss