From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 3 16:26:44 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3549B26C7 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:26:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x235.google.com (mail-ig0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 641111DA6 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:26:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by igbpg9 with SMTP id pg9so75397394igb.0 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:26:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7xJGc8h3AuCdH8ylxygmu1zV6hzVMaNux7DNwJPJz84=; b=KighP7kW3lPv0AbYC+nOaoliSUOPQ3BYhGq0a/QB8l4fg62NcFO6c8g1dVYY1kuX0C rR1/ApM2A77jXoY0T1dYEA8iXdogbCm9kkxaivRYJbTDA01BpvyVg5iiM8nd9vo5dLWf 9G3oFzrgnEtXskwIwvkQmAHLbdfkB0fybUMvMBhRjDmWW4bSCF2bd6sdk7/GVCIHm+Gf UIzyvOYhyyLme/Il8291PI6BKG6ysWdxBgDVy/Vg5aISLRrigLr06zGAm6TsJz8JKVmZ Bt4vg8m6IpNFZavZqQLhXAOX9c3cf+EnTubCTAAtwBUveFSCKc7t9AiEW/YG4UxFnRPu 52DA== X-Received: by 10.50.29.101 with SMTP id j5mr21716744igh.50.1438619203784; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id qs10sm6047184igb.14.2015.08.03.09.26.42 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55BF964B.7080400@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:26:51 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55BF8824.9050803@gmail.com> <55BF8D65.6010404@bananmonarki.se> <55BF9024.6000409@gmail.com> <55BF9522.3@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <55BF9522.3@bananmonarki.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:26:44 -0000 On 08/03/2015 10:21 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > On 2015-08-03 18:00, jd1008 wrote: >> Are you invoking the command as root or regular user? > > As root. If your installation cannot write to the raw device, then it is either a bug or .....???? One thing that you have to be aware of is that if you dd an iso image to a flash, then afterwards, the OS will always assume it is a non-writable cdrom; that is until you dd /dev/zero into the raw device while it is not mounted.