Installing an OS over the existing OS
Phil
phillor9 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 05:29:16 UTC 2023
On 16/2/23 14:59, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>
> You probably ran `sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb`, not `sudo mkfs.ext4
> /dev/sdb1`. Which will nuke the partition table and make a filesystem
> on the whole drive. You'll probably have to start from scratch with
> reformatting the drive, sadly. The drive should partitioned and have
> the bootloader installed onto it, the partition should be formatted
> and have the ISO contents copied to it.
I ran through the whole exercise again and this time there weren't any
errors. However, the resulting USB device isn't bootable even in the
laptop where it used to boot when I created a bootable USB device using
etcher.
Ah well, we gave it a good shot and thank you Aaron for being so patient.
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Regards,
Phil
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