Command to making USB flash drive a bootable disk works only 2/10 of the times
I am following this guide
https://wiki.parabola.nu/Beginners%27_Guide
and when I get to the "# dd bs=4M if=~/downloads/parabola-*-dual.iso of=/dev/sdx && sync" where one shall make the USB flash a bootable disk, it only works some times, most of the times nothing happens.
Have anybody experienced something similar and found the cause?
I found the error... The error was that in the 8/10 it didn't work, I was including the "#" in the command...
The # means that you need to run this command as root...
Okay, that's a standard? :)
It is a convention, which is usually respected (execute 'sudo -i' to get a root terminal and see the prompt: it will end with "#", unless you redefined the PS1 variable, probably in /root/.bashrc).
glorious! So after I type sudo -i, every command from there on will be sudo even though I do not specify sudo?
What do you mean "nothing happens"?
dd is not supposed to be verbose. It acts as if nothing's happening. At the end it will print the number of bytes written to target disk. Do you get the prompt back?
'sudo dd if=trisquel.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M;sync'
The USB disk must be unmounted first for dd to perform its routine.