The most successful tool for writing images to USB I have run across. The only thing it cannot wrangle is windows bootimages. https://www.balena.io/etcher/ On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:51 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > I rarely ever time luck getting usb boot disks to work using linux tools > for whatever reason. I keep a usb cd drive and a stack of cdr/dvdr's > around still. > > That said, last time I tried, I found arch required a disklabel to be > written that the disk volume shows up as "ARCH" to the OS that it didn't do > by default with ubuntu's iso to usb tool(s), might be something as simple > as that. > > -mb > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:25 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> how are you writing the image? if just dd try balena etcher maybe? >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:41 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> On 2021-06-09 15:55, Dennis via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>> > Okay, I tried dmesg and it showed [there was a partition >>> > on /dev/sdc1 ]. When I tried [to mount] that, I got >>> > "can't find in etc/fstab". >>> >>> I put the important parts you left out in []s. Why are you trying to >>> mount things? You said you want to install Tails to a USB disk. That >>> does not involve mounting anything, but dding the tails-1.2.3.img file >>> to the entire USB disk. >>> >>> If I plug in an old Memorex USB disk, then immediately do "dmesg | >>> tail", and I snip all the irrelevant bits, I get: >>> >>> scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Memorex TRAVELDRIVE 005B >>> sdf: sdf1 sdf2 >>> >>> ...this is a Gentoo USB installation image with 2 partitions, one EFI >>> and one with the install data. So if I wanted to install Tails to this >>> USB disk, I would do: >>> >>> dd if=tails-1.2.3.img of=/dev/sdf bs=1M >>> >>> ...as a user who had write permission to /dev/sdf . Note that your USB >>> disk will show up as a completely different /dev/sdX device. >>> >>> -- >>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen