From 0601fea27f7eba80e503b4f91d25f737716b5ebb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hikmat Jafarli Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:42:16 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add "sync" to the USB installation guide Pulling out the USB drive after dd completes leads to corrupted/incomplete installation media if one forgets to flush the cached writes with "sync". Explicitly mentioning the command will possibly avoid some future annoyances/confusion. --- installing/installation-guide.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/installing/installation-guide.md b/installing/installation-guide.md index e0b97bbd..54b67776 100644 --- a/installing/installation-guide.md +++ b/installing/installation-guide.md @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ an installation medium.) If you prefer to use a USB drive, then you just need to copy the ISO onto the USB device, e.g. using `dd`: - dd if=Qubes-R3-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M + dd if=Qubes-R3-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M && sync Change `Qubes-R3-x86_64.iso` to the filename of the version you're installing, and change `/dev/sdX` to the correct target device (e.g., `/dev/sda`).