David Hunt wrote:
I was trying to create a bootable USB drive using the diskboot.img
file under /images in FC2 disc1. I had already done something similar
with FC1, but didn't document it. So I have used this drive to
install FC1. I know it is possible.
I originally just copied the files to the usb drive using cp after
mounting the image. That seemed to copy OK. But since the readme file
indicated that dd should be used, I decided to start from scratch, and
document the entire thing.
I found a thread about using dd on the test-list and tried the same
command string. Assuming that I have mounted the disc1 iso at
/mnt/cdrom, and the usb drive is located at /dev/sda, with sda1 being
a bootable VFAT partition, verified with sfdisk, the command is...
"dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/diskboot.img of=/dev/sda1". The bad thing is
that it doesn't copy the files in the image, instead it created over
4000 files and directories of just plain garbage. Can anyone tell me
how to use dd properly to transfer the contents of the image to the
usb drive? Or, why dd should be used at all? Why was dd recommended if
just copying the files would work?
Feeling foolish, and wanting some guidance.
Found the problem. I still had /dev/sda1 mounted when I issued the dd
command. umount first, and it works OK.
