On 26/09/14 23:36, bitlord wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 23:11 +0200, Paolo De Michele wrote: >> hi everybody, >> >> I'm not be able to boot fedora 20 x64 or x32 from usb (I tried fedora >> kde live, fedora complete and centos 6.5 minimal) >> I used a lot of software like liveusb-creator, unetbootin and the shell >> command like dd >> >> the pendrive is formatted in vfat and the client is a veriton N281G (on >> the bios I see that support removable devices) > When you are copying complete image to flash drive, you don't need to > format it. (useless action, you will overwrite it later) ok >> >> the shell command is: dd if=/dir/file.iso of=/dev/sdx1 bs=1M >> with liveusb-creator and the unetbootin the steps are via gui > Not sure for centos images (I think older ones are not compatible to be > directly copied to device, and don't know for new ones >=7. But fedora > should work fine, and when you do it, you don't copy your image to the > partition, but to the device, so of=/dev/sdx1 is wrong, (1,2,3.... ) is > a partition number. > You need something like this > # dd if=<fedora_iso_image> of=/dev/sdx (where X can be a,b,c,...) > Be careful with this method it will overwrite device with data of size > of the image ... > More info on writing usb images > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB it works > > And always when you download ISO images verify them > https://fedoraproject.org/verify >> so, where I wrong? >> let me know, thanks in advance >> >> regards > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org