Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 1, 2015 Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) I tried this with both Arch and ArchBang, no difference. I want to write the iso file to my 4GB pen drive. So I type: david@david-desktop ~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/home/david/Downloads/archlinux.iso bs=8MB Where sdc is the usb pen drive. I wait for it to write to the drive. I get this: 501+1 records in 501+1 records out 4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 230.871 s, 17.4 MB/s That looks about right, no? Instead, this is what I see in the USB drive. Am I doing something wrong or something? Frankly I tried Ubootin, too, and that was a disaster as well. Help? Edited September 1, 2015 by Mindovermaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 1, 2015 Author Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2015 Update: Even with USB Image Writer, it does the same thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mud W1ggle Subscriber² Posted September 1, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted September 1, 2015 I tried this with both Arch and ArchBang, no difference. I want to write the iso file to my 4GB pen drive. So I type: david@david-desktop ~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/home/david/Downloads/archlinux.iso bs=8MB Where sdc is the usb pen drive. I wait for it to write to the drive. I get this: 501+1 records in 501+1 records out 4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 230.871 s, 17.4 MB/s That looks about right, no? Instead, this is what I see in the USB drive. Am I doing something wrong or something? Frankly I tried Ubootin, too, and that was a disaster as well. Help? with regards to dd if = input of = output so to write to the usb stick from an ISO sudo dd of=/dev/sdc if=/path_to_iso I doubt you would need the bs parameter either, but im not an expert... from what you have said, I think you have overwritten the ISO with the contents of your USB stick already... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 david@david-desktop ~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/home/david/Downloads/archlinux.iso bs=8MB sudo dd if=/home/david/Downloads/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync <- That's how I do it and funny enough that's the exact command I ran last night to switch to Gnome 3.16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+theblazingangel MVC Posted September 1, 2015 MVC Share Posted September 1, 2015 I tried this with both Arch and ArchBang, no difference. I want to write the iso file to my 4GB pen drive. So I type: david@david-desktop ~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/home/david/Downloads/archlinux.iso bs=8MB [...] Am I doing something wrong or something? Frankly I tried Ubootin, too, and that was a disaster as well. Help? As already pointed out, but to make it perfectly clear, you've got your input and output devices the wrong way around! The 'if' argument is for input and the 'of' argument is for output. You've overwritten the iso file with the existing contents of the usb pen drive. You're going to need to download a new copy of that iso and try again (with things the correct way around this time!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted September 1, 2015 Author Moderator Share Posted September 1, 2015 Oh, that's what it was. Derp day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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