Installing an OS over the existing OS

[Phil]

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