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serif">hmm... in that case perhaps a small note on the
instructions for those not as heavily versed in unix (or reading
and thinking that close) might help? Say adding "Note this is
not /dev/sdXX as seen in fdisk -l which would be a partition,
JUST /dev/sdX which is the device without a partition number."
or something to that effect. I also noticed the website and
everyone here says to use dd, but the instructions displayed at
the end of the make operation say to use something different
(which also didn't work for me, but I was again leaving on a
partition number) so some consistency might again help the
neophyte not get tripped up.<br>
Just some thoughts, hope they're helpful.<br>
Yadin<br>
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On 6/13/13 11:42 PM, Clive Eisen wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Well hey, that might explain the blank drive then.... Important tip, I'll give that a shot :)
One of the things that drives me nuts about unix, you'd think that dd would kick back and say you can't do that, specify a device not a partition, rather than acting like it was successful.
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<pre wrap="">No - it did do it - it's just not what you WANTED to do
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