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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: TW
From:       Patrick Shanahan <paka () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2018-11-20 0:21:24
Message-ID: 20181120002124.GN4145 () wahoo ! no-ip ! org
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* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [11-19-18 18:40]:
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> On 19/11/2018 17.58, Chuck Davis wrote:
> > Interesting development....
> > 
> > I tried to copy the image file to a 16GB thumb drive (empty).
> 
> What did you use, imagewriter?
> 
> Notice that it does not matter if the thumb is originally empty or
> not: anything it might had is destroyed. It is not a normal file copy,
> it is an image raw copy.
> 
> There is a full wiki page at our site explaining how to do this copy
> to usb stick.
> 
> > At about the 98% mark the copy operation stalled for no apparent
> > reason -- just sitting there with the "Notifications" icon spinning
> > but no copying happening.  I'll next see if the Network install
> > image will copy to the thumb drive.
> 
> 
> The raw copy process might stall at the end, because the kernel may
> cache several gigabytes in advance that have to be actually written at
> the end, with the appearance of stalling.

OP's problem was not enough space on the install partition.

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