The ISO is 3.5 GB, but when I dd it to a USB drive the terminal says: "465534976 bytes (466 MB, 444 MiB) copied, 95.7429 s, 4.9 MB/s"

fresh_orange_0 · 04-27-2022, 06:43 PM

The ISO is 3.5 G, but when I dd it to a USB drive the terminal says: "465534976 bytes (466 MB, 444 MiB) copied, 95.7429 s, 4.9 MB/s"

ISO: https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw...nstall-dvd.iso

fresh_orange_0 · 04-27-2022, 06:43 PM

I'm on MX Linux 19.4 at the moment

fresh_orange_0 · 04-27-2022, 06:45 PM

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michaelk · 04-27-2022, 07:10 PM

You wrote the file to the partition /dev/sdb1 instead of the entire device i.e. /dev/sdb. The partition is less then 3.5GB so dd fails.

fresh_orange_0 · 04-28-2022, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by michaelk

You wrote the file to the partition /dev/sdb1 instead of the entire device i.e. /dev/sdb. The partition is less then 3.5GB so dd fails.

You're right, thanks for pointing that, however CFDISK listed some partitions as being "Linux x86" or something like that, instead of listing them as EXT4, and that can't be explained by "incomplete" dd process

ondoho · 04-28-2022, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by fresh_orange_0

You're right, thanks for pointing that, however CFDISK listed some partitions as being "Linux x86" or something like that, instead of listing them as EXT4, and that can't be explained by "incomplete" dd process

Doesn't matter, OS images are written to the device itself, not any partition. Make sure /dev/sdb is the correct device. You know, dd = disk destroyer.

michaelk · 04-28-2022, 03:51 AM

cfdisk reports partition ID labels and not filesystem types. They are independent of each other. The dd command will overwrite everything including the MBR/GPT