dd command appears unresponsive when attempting to create bootable USB media in Debian?
I'm attempting to mount an Ubuntu .iso to a USB drive using the dd command in Debian, however I'm having trouble. Below is the process I've been using thus far:
- Format the disk I want to mount the .iso to (now the Device ID is /dev/sde)
- Enter
suin a terminal to grant root access and enter password - Enter
umount /dev/sde(Just for good measure, I'm aware the disk is already unmounted) - Enter
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde
Now, in the past when I've used this in other distros it's worked just fine and I could carry on to sync, and then boot up using the newly created media. However in Debian it seems to become totally unresponsive after entering the command in step 4, simply giving me a cursor on the next line down with no shell prompt. It will stay this way until I remove the USB drive from my system. After re-inserting the drive the 'Disks' application shows that partitions have been created and that Ubuntu has been written to the drive, however when attempting to boot from the drive I get taken straight to the gnome recovery terminal where it informs me that some executable is missing. I'm assuming here that the problem lies with Debian.
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I'm attempting to mount an Ubuntu .iso to a USB drive using the dd command in Debian, however I'm having trouble. Below is the process I've been using thus far:
- Format the disk I want to mount the .iso to (now the Device ID is /dev/sde)
- Enter
suin a terminal to grant root access and enter password - Enter
umount /dev/sde(Just for good measure, I'm aware the disk is already unmounted) - Enter
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde
Now, in the past when I've used this in other distros it's worked just fine and I could carry on to sync, and then boot up using the newly created media. However in Debian it seems to become totally unresponsive after entering the command in step 4, simply giving me a cursor on the next line down with no shell prompt. It will stay this way until I remove the USB drive from my system. After re-inserting the drive the 'Disks' application shows that partitions have been created and that Ubuntu has been written to the drive, however when attempting to boot from the drive I get taken straight to the gnome recovery terminal where it informs me that some executable is missing. I'm assuming here that the problem lies with Debian.
debian terminal dd
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
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asked Sep 18 '17 at 15:05
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Any messages from dmesg or when you run strace on the dd process?
– Raman Sailopal
Sep 18 '17 at 15:15
Apologies, typo, I meant to say that it becomes unresponsive after step 4. I'll edit my post now.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:18
@Raman - I've not actually ran those before? Give me a couple minutes and I'll post the result here.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:19
2
Try runningiostat 5in another window before running the dd. The read and write rates should increase until they level off. Do you see the i/o stop at any point? What speeds do you see? Some flash drives have write rates of 3 or 4 MB/sec, so it may take 20 minutes or more to write a DVD image.
– Mark Plotnick
Sep 18 '17 at 15:22
@Mark - When attempting to run theiostat 5command as suggested I get the following error:bash: iostat: command not found
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
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I'm attempting to mount an Ubuntu .iso to a USB drive using the dd command in Debian, however I'm having trouble. Below is the process I've been using thus far:
- Format the disk I want to mount the .iso to (now the Device ID is /dev/sde)
- Enter
suin a terminal to grant root access and enter password - Enter
umount /dev/sde(Just for good measure, I'm aware the disk is already unmounted) - Enter
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde
Now, in the past when I've used this in other distros it's worked just fine and I could carry on to sync, and then boot up using the newly created media. However in Debian it seems to become totally unresponsive after entering the command in step 4, simply giving me a cursor on the next line down with no shell prompt. It will stay this way until I remove the USB drive from my system. After re-inserting the drive the 'Disks' application shows that partitions have been created and that Ubuntu has been written to the drive, however when attempting to boot from the drive I get taken straight to the gnome recovery terminal where it informs me that some executable is missing. I'm assuming here that the problem lies with Debian.
debian terminal dd
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
asked Sep 18 '17 at 15:05
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I'm attempting to mount an Ubuntu .iso to a USB drive using the dd command in Debian, however I'm having trouble. Below is the process I've been using thus far:
- Format the disk I want to mount the .iso to (now the Device ID is /dev/sde)
- Enter
suin a terminal to grant root access and enter password - Enter
umount /dev/sde(Just for good measure, I'm aware the disk is already unmounted) - Enter
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde
Now, in the past when I've used this in other distros it's worked just fine and I could carry on to sync, and then boot up using the newly created media. However in Debian it seems to become totally unresponsive after entering the command in step 4, simply giving me a cursor on the next line down with no shell prompt. It will stay this way until I remove the USB drive from my system. After re-inserting the drive the 'Disks' application shows that partitions have been created and that Ubuntu has been written to the drive, however when attempting to boot from the drive I get taken straight to the gnome recovery terminal where it informs me that some executable is missing. I'm assuming here that the problem lies with Debian.
debian terminal dd
debian terminal dd
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
asked Sep 18 '17 at 15:05
MetaMeta
11
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
asked Sep 18 '17 at 15:05
MetaMeta
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edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
41.5k1483140
edited 1 hour ago
Rui F Ribeiro
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asked Sep 18 '17 at 15:05
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asked Sep 18 '17 at 15:05
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asked Sep 18 '17 at 15:05
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Any messages from dmesg or when you run strace on the dd process?
– Raman Sailopal
Sep 18 '17 at 15:15
Apologies, typo, I meant to say that it becomes unresponsive after step 4. I'll edit my post now.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:18
@Raman - I've not actually ran those before? Give me a couple minutes and I'll post the result here.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:19
2
Try runningiostat 5in another window before running the dd. The read and write rates should increase until they level off. Do you see the i/o stop at any point? What speeds do you see? Some flash drives have write rates of 3 or 4 MB/sec, so it may take 20 minutes or more to write a DVD image.
– Mark Plotnick
Sep 18 '17 at 15:22
@Mark - When attempting to run theiostat 5command as suggested I get the following error:bash: iostat: command not found
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
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Any messages from dmesg or when you run strace on the dd process?
– Raman Sailopal
Sep 18 '17 at 15:15
Apologies, typo, I meant to say that it becomes unresponsive after step 4. I'll edit my post now.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:18
@Raman - I've not actually ran those before? Give me a couple minutes and I'll post the result here.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:19
2
Try runningiostat 5in another window before running the dd. The read and write rates should increase until they level off. Do you see the i/o stop at any point? What speeds do you see? Some flash drives have write rates of 3 or 4 MB/sec, so it may take 20 minutes or more to write a DVD image.
– Mark Plotnick
Sep 18 '17 at 15:22
@Mark - When attempting to run theiostat 5command as suggested I get the following error:bash: iostat: command not found
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
Any messages from dmesg or when you run strace on the dd process?
– Raman Sailopal
Sep 18 '17 at 15:15
Any messages from dmesg or when you run strace on the dd process?
– Raman Sailopal
Sep 18 '17 at 15:15
Apologies, typo, I meant to say that it becomes unresponsive after step 4. I'll edit my post now.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:18
Apologies, typo, I meant to say that it becomes unresponsive after step 4. I'll edit my post now.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:18
@Raman - I've not actually ran those before? Give me a couple minutes and I'll post the result here.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:19
@Raman - I've not actually ran those before? Give me a couple minutes and I'll post the result here.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:19
2
2
Try running
iostat 5 in another window before running the dd. The read and write rates should increase until they level off. Do you see the i/o stop at any point? What speeds do you see? Some flash drives have write rates of 3 or 4 MB/sec, so it may take 20 minutes or more to write a DVD image.– Mark Plotnick
Sep 18 '17 at 15:22
Try running
iostat 5 in another window before running the dd. The read and write rates should increase until they level off. Do you see the i/o stop at any point? What speeds do you see? Some flash drives have write rates of 3 or 4 MB/sec, so it may take 20 minutes or more to write a DVD image.– Mark Plotnick
Sep 18 '17 at 15:22
@Mark - When attempting to run the
iostat 5 command as suggested I get the following error: bash: iostat: command not found– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
@Mark - When attempting to run the
iostat 5 command as suggested I get the following error: bash: iostat: command not found– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
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dd does not show progress, what happens after step 4 is normal. Just let it finish, it might take some time depending on your USB and PC.
Use pv to see if the copy is happening.
apt-get install pv
dd if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso | pv | dd of=/dev/sde bs=4M
edited Sep 20 '17 at 7:34
Ferenc Wágner
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answered Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
Hunter.S.ThompsonHunter.S.Thompson
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Hmm. I have let it run for over half an hour before now though, and in the past on other distros it's only taken a matter of minutes? I'll install and run the command as you suggested though and see what the result is.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:29
add a comment |
Try this:
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde status=progress
dd now supports showing the progress.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
91
If yourddis older, you can still send an USR1 signal to have it print the info. Fromman dd: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
– Ferenc Wágner
Sep 20 '17 at 7:37
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dd does not show progress, what happens after step 4 is normal. Just let it finish, it might take some time depending on your USB and PC.
Use pv to see if the copy is happening.
apt-get install pv
dd if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso | pv | dd of=/dev/sde bs=4M
edited Sep 20 '17 at 7:34
Ferenc Wágner
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answered Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
Hunter.S.ThompsonHunter.S.Thompson
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Hmm. I have let it run for over half an hour before now though, and in the past on other distros it's only taken a matter of minutes? I'll install and run the command as you suggested though and see what the result is.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:29
add a comment |
dd does not show progress, what happens after step 4 is normal. Just let it finish, it might take some time depending on your USB and PC.
Use pv to see if the copy is happening.
apt-get install pv
dd if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso | pv | dd of=/dev/sde bs=4M
edited Sep 20 '17 at 7:34
Ferenc Wágner
3,109920
answered Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
Hunter.S.ThompsonHunter.S.Thompson
5,54551336
Hmm. I have let it run for over half an hour before now though, and in the past on other distros it's only taken a matter of minutes? I'll install and run the command as you suggested though and see what the result is.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:29
add a comment |
dd does not show progress, what happens after step 4 is normal. Just let it finish, it might take some time depending on your USB and PC.
Use pv to see if the copy is happening.
apt-get install pv
dd if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso | pv | dd of=/dev/sde bs=4M
edited Sep 20 '17 at 7:34
Ferenc Wágner
3,109920
answered Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
Hunter.S.ThompsonHunter.S.Thompson
5,54551336
dd does not show progress, what happens after step 4 is normal. Just let it finish, it might take some time depending on your USB and PC.
Use pv to see if the copy is happening.
apt-get install pv
dd if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso | pv | dd of=/dev/sde bs=4M
edited Sep 20 '17 at 7:34
Ferenc Wágner
3,109920
answered Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
Hunter.S.ThompsonHunter.S.Thompson
5,54551336
edited Sep 20 '17 at 7:34
Ferenc Wágner
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edited Sep 20 '17 at 7:34
Ferenc Wágner
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answered Sep 18 '17 at 15:26
Hunter.S.ThompsonHunter.S.Thompson
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5,54551336
Hmm. I have let it run for over half an hour before now though, and in the past on other distros it's only taken a matter of minutes? I'll install and run the command as you suggested though and see what the result is.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:29
add a comment |
Hmm. I have let it run for over half an hour before now though, and in the past on other distros it's only taken a matter of minutes? I'll install and run the command as you suggested though and see what the result is.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:29
Hmm. I have let it run for over half an hour before now though, and in the past on other distros it's only taken a matter of minutes? I'll install and run the command as you suggested though and see what the result is.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:29
Hmm. I have let it run for over half an hour before now though, and in the past on other distros it's only taken a matter of minutes? I'll install and run the command as you suggested though and see what the result is.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:29
add a comment |
Try this:
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde status=progress
dd now supports showing the progress.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
91
If yourddis older, you can still send an USR1 signal to have it print the info. Fromman dd: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
– Ferenc Wágner
Sep 20 '17 at 7:37
add a comment |
Try this:
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde status=progress
dd now supports showing the progress.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
91
If yourddis older, you can still send an USR1 signal to have it print the info. Fromman dd: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
– Ferenc Wágner
Sep 20 '17 at 7:37
add a comment |
Try this:
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde status=progress
dd now supports showing the progress.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
91
Try this:
dd bs=4M if=/home/user/Downloads/ubuntu-gnome-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sde status=progress
dd now supports showing the progress.
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
91
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
91
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
91
answered Sep 19 '17 at 4:41
rootbotnixrootbotnix
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91
If yourddis older, you can still send an USR1 signal to have it print the info. Fromman dd: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
– Ferenc Wágner
Sep 20 '17 at 7:37
add a comment |
If yourddis older, you can still send an USR1 signal to have it print the info. Fromman dd: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
– Ferenc Wágner
Sep 20 '17 at 7:37
If your
dd is older, you can still send an USR1 signal to have it print the info. From man dd: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.– Ferenc Wágner
Sep 20 '17 at 7:37
If your
dd is older, you can still send an USR1 signal to have it print the info. From man dd: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.– Ferenc Wágner
Sep 20 '17 at 7:37
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Any messages from dmesg or when you run strace on the dd process?
– Raman Sailopal
Sep 18 '17 at 15:15
Apologies, typo, I meant to say that it becomes unresponsive after step 4. I'll edit my post now.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:18
@Raman - I've not actually ran those before? Give me a couple minutes and I'll post the result here.
– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:19
2
Try running
iostat 5in another window before running the dd. The read and write rates should increase until they level off. Do you see the i/o stop at any point? What speeds do you see? Some flash drives have write rates of 3 or 4 MB/sec, so it may take 20 minutes or more to write a DVD image.– Mark Plotnick
Sep 18 '17 at 15:22
@Mark - When attempting to run the
iostat 5command as suggested I get the following error:bash: iostat: command not found– Meta
Sep 18 '17 at 15:26