On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 20:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >/dev/sdb is not a directory. Unless your setup is *very* nonstandard, > >it's a device, in fact a disk drive. In the worst case the app might > >want to seek on it, but there's no reason it shouldn't be able to do > >that. > > Another item that has blown on by is that /dev/sdb is the whole > device. One > must have at least one mountable partition setup on the device, and > the > filesystem suitably initialized and mounted before the file can be > written. > There are some exceptions to that rule, generally involving either > an .iso > image, or 'dd' which can make an identical image on any writable > device at > least big enough to hold the image. I was assuming the latter, given that the OP's version uses dd. However it's starting to look like he may not be entirely sure of what he's doing. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
