I want to install F8 from a 1GB pen drive but dd does not work,
although I can mount it. dd shows it worked:
# dd if=/home/cpn/Desktop/Downloads/diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb1
24576+0 records in
24576+0 records out
12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 0.307408 s, 40.9 MB/s
But there is nothing in the directory:
[root@dkt ~]# ll /media/KINGSTON/
total 0
fdisk -l shows strange messages:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 204 158816 79940952 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 1027 MB, 1027604480 bytes
32 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1984 * 512 = 1015808 bytes
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 966294 1813487 840415161 69 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(612, 109, 33) logical=(966293, 30, 10)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(255, 97, 46) logical=(1813486, 20, 39)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 ? 976282 1834012 850868148+ ff BBT
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(367, 115, 35) logical=(976281, 15, 17)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(80, 13, 10) logical=(1834011, 14, 55)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3 ? 891259 1782449 884061367 6c Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(355, 116, 37) logical=(891258, 2, 52)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(112, 97, 32) logical=(1782448, 31, 27)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4 ? 1 1790834 1776506368 0 Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(10, 114, 13) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(1790833, 1, 2)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
When I try to enter fdisk the device can't be opened:
# fdisk sdb
Unable to open sdb
# ll /dev/sdb1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12582912 2007-11-15 17:56 /dev/sdb1
Any workaround?
Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
