You got it right, there just doesnt want to be a 1 there, and it does not want to be mounted:<div><br></div><div>/dev/sdb :)</div><div><br></div><div>#Warning: IT WILL WIPE THE WHOLE DRIVE!!#<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas <<a href="mailto:krisdouglas@gmail.com">krisdouglas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe <<a href="mailto:tim@southfarm.plus.com">tim@southfarm.plus.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div>>>...<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5">>> Problem 1: the USB sticks:<br> >> -------------------------<br> >> The 8 GB stick has no apparent fault as all the files on it can be seen<br> >> OK.<br> >> The 4 GB stick starts off as 4GB but formatting brings this down to 3.4<br> >> GB and this will not hold all of Stephen Ford's image.<br> >><br> >> Problem 2: Loading Ubuntu to the stick:<br> >> --------------------------------------<br> >> I had originally done this on the 8 GB stick via the Windows program<br> >> Disk Imager which made two partitions.<br> >><br> >> As this had not worked on the Joggler, I then tried following Stephen<br> >> Ford's simple instructions from his site. I unzipped (un-tar, etc) his<br> >> file until I was left with this: joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin<br> >><br> >> I then wiped the stick and reformatted it.<br> >><br> >> The problem then came with his command of:<br> >> dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=<your_own_device> bs=10M count=365<br> >> I did not know what <your_own_device>should be translated to. So I<br> >> tried:<br> >> dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M count=365<br> >> and got the response:<br> >> dd: opening `/dev/sdb1': Permission denied<br> >><br> >> My second attempt was with this command:<br> >> dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin<br> >> of=/media/C/joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin bs=10M count=365<br> >> and this got the response of:<br> >> 365+0 records in<br> >> 365+0 records out<br> >> 3827302400 bytes (3.8 GB) copied, 707.077 s, 5.4 MB/s<br> >><br> >> As above, I put the stick in the Joggler and nothing useful resulted on<br> >> a reboot.<br> ><br> > Hello, the initial command looked correct, the location of the device<br> > is the name of where the usb stick is in the file system table, open<br> > Gparted/partition editor, you should see the usb device and it will be<br> > something like /dev/sdb<br> ><br> > then remember to type sudo before the command, just to see if you need<br> > root privilege to access the device. HTH<br> <br> </div></div>Just as a corollary to this, it is not necessary to format the stick<br> before writing it with dd. The formatting info is included in the<br> image. So the output file is something like sdb which is the complete<br> stick rather than a partition.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Colin<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> --<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>~Daniel<br> </div>