[mythtvnz] What is the best MythTV distribution to use?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Worik Stanton <worik.stanton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 12/08/13 10:47, Worik Stanton wrote:
> >> > This is quickly becoming off topic for this list. You should take up
> >> > any further issues on the approprate forum/channel or whatever for
> >> > the linhes project.
> > Yes, it is of topic.  If I get a successful result I will post it here
> > for the benefit o the search engines though.  But I'll refrain from
> > weeping tears on this list about anything not directly related to MythTV.
>
> For the record using /dev/sdb rather than /dev/sdb1 as the target of dd
> resulted in a bootable stick.
>
> dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb1 did *not* work (as expected, with hindsight)
>
> dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb *did* work
>
> Being very careful that the USB stick was mounted at /dev/sdb...
>

/dev/sdb is not a mount point. /dev/sdb is the device node for the entire
disk

A typical mount point would be /media/disk

But yes, make sure you don't specify your regular hard drive or you'll be
sorry!
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