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Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

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On 2019-05-04, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>> > it auto-mounted.
>> 
>> > So as root I did:
>> > 
>> > cp <ISO file> /dev/sdf
>> 
>> You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp.  This may mean
>> you have to turn off your auto-mounter, or (better still) just log out of
>> your Desktop Environment entirely, and log in as root on a text console
>> for this operation.

I'm intervening here merely to point out that just because the user's
external usb device is auto-mounted does not mean that said device
cannot be unmounted by the usual methods (at least I have yet to
encounter Greg Wooledge's auto-mounter from Hell that will not permit
it). 

>> If the device is mounted, that will interfere with the raw byte writing
>> you're doing.  The results are unpredictable.
>> 
>
> This makes sense to me; confession time -- I originally ejected the pen 
> drive when Gnome auto-mounted it, but then found I couldn't do anything 
> with the device at all, so concluded that contrary to my memory it 
> needed to be mounted. Web pages I'd found said nothing about unmounting 
> the device before writing, so again I thought my memory was faulty. What 
> I failed to consider was the difference between unmounting and ejecting.
>

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to get them. I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful
language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with
the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was 
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Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-03 19:00 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-03 19:30 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-05-03 19:40 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image James Medeiros <james.medeiros@gmail.com> - 2019-05-03 19:30 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 04:50 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> - 2019-05-04 07:30 +0200
      RESOLVED: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-05-05 05:30 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 08:40 +0200
      Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 09:20 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 09:30 +0200
          Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 11:30 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 11:50 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-05-04 14:40 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2019-05-04 10:20 +0200
          Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 18:50 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-05-04 21:30 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-05-05 11:00 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-04 12:00 +0200
      Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-06 14:50 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-06 16:10 +0200

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