On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:01:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I was writing the image for Ubuntu Net Book Remix to usb and it would
> stall and hang for a long time. I am not sure how big a usb key you need I
> was using a 2 gig key. it says your net book should have 4 gigs of
> storage. can any one help with this ?
> I seen nothing about it in the forums. I was installing it with the usb
> image writer in Ubuntu. now I am going to try it on windows :(
> See you Saturday! , Ron
You don't need the image writer to put the UNR image on the USB key. You
just dd it to the key:
dd if=/path/to/unr.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
Where sdb is the device via which your USB key is accessible (see the
output of dmesg after inserting the key to get the device).
HTH,
Gabe
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Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu
HPC Systems Administrator,
University of Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute http://www.msi.umn.edu