Bug 177812 - Example of copying installer to USB pen drives suggests /dev/sda instead of sda1
Summary: Example of copying installer to USB pen drives suggests /dev/sda instead of sda1
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rhel-ig-x8664
Version: 4.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ryan Lerch
QA Contact: John Ha
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-14 17:04 UTC by Radek Bíba
Modified: 2014-08-04 22:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-03-15 01:01:05 UTC
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Description Radek Bíba 2006-01-14 17:04:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
2.4.1. Alternative Boot Methods (s1-steps-install-cdrom.html) reads:
dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda

I think this is incorrect. AFAIK /dev/sda is the whole device and one needs to
write the image file into a partition, which is /dev/sda1 in case of USB pen
drives.

Please take a look at the Fedora Installation Guide at
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-using-otherbootmedia.html
where sda1 is used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel-ig-x8664(EN)-4-HTML-RHI (2004-09-24T13:10)
Comment 3 Michael Hideo 2007-10-23 02:43:47 UTC 
Removing automation notification
Comment 4 Michael Hideo 2008-01-22 04:36:33 UTC 
Moving to Don
Comment 5 Don Domingo 2008-01-29 03:17:39 UTC 
corrected in source. setting as MODIFIED.
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