[PLUG] Putting knoppix-8.6 on an 8G flash drive [DONE]

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Nov 16 20:02:41 UTC 2019


On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, Galen Seitz wrote:

> Looks like you copied the iso to a partition on the flash drive. With
> knoppix 8.6 you should copy/dd the iso to the raw drive. i.e. /dev/sdd Be
> absolutely certain that you have the correct device!

Galen,

Yes, I did try to put it on a partition rather than the whole drive because
I ignored the /var/log/messages line about sdd and specified sdd1 because
that's what I usually do when mounting a flash drive. Sigh.

Specifying of=/dev/sdd did the job.

Thanks,

Rich





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