From: ank@spamfence.net   
      
   §ñühw¤£f wrote on 29. August 2009:   
   >   
   > In message <87praeb1wg.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Try "mount" to see if the stick is mounted somewhere. Usually /dev/sdb or   
   >> /dev/sdb1 (a partition of it).   
   >>   
   > I could mount it and browse to its home folder.  I dragged & dropped   
   > the image file onto it and then tried to use 'Makebootable' and it   
   > seemed to add something to it. But not being able to use dd if= to   
   > write the file to it is where its failing.   
      
   One important thing I forgot: you must be sure to dd on the correct   
   device. If you take the wrong, you might wipe your hard disk instead for   
   example.   
      
   Also try "lsusb" if the stick shows up there.   
      
   >> Unmount (with umount /dev/sdb(or 1)   
   >>   
   >> it before using dd again.   
   >   
   > I tried it unmounted also. No luck there.   
      
   Example (check, if this is okay for you and you not accidently wipe the   
   hard disk):   
      
   dd if=/hal9000/home/Haiku/haiku-alpha-gcc4.image of=/dev/sdb   
      
   So haiku-alpha-gcc4.image is the BeOS file, and /dev/sdb the   
   stick. Double check this before executing not to wipe the hard disk.   
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