On 07/30/2015 09:00 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Frederic Muller <fred@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On a sidenote livecd-to-disk didn't work as the MBA didn't see the >> stick. dd however did work and booted. > > Those seem contradictory. The stick is a block device. In order for dd > to use it, it had to show up the same as for livecd-iso-to-disk. > > >> Gparted however saw a 16GB stick >> instead of 4GB. > > Sounds suspiciously like counterfeit flash. > > > So I formatted afterwards because I used the flash for something else and it showed a hpfs+ partition (using dd). I need to have a look at the livecd gparted view (which is then 4GB - but I think it is very different) but I was also very surprised by the whole stuff. Gparted stated that their was a problem with the block size (IIRC) which was 512 at one place and 2048 at another place... Fred -- 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
