Can't get Live/Install CD to work. What am I doing wrong?

I have used Apple dd many times, so it definitely can work for this.

I think that it might help to use bs= in the dd command, ie

[code]dd if=linuxcnc-2.7-wheezy.iso of=/dev/sde bs=1m[code]

That said, I haven't had cause to do it with the current ISO.

I don't know, you seem to have gotten farther than I did if you can get error messages. I tried installing on new computers until the old one died, then I was out of time and was forced to go to the dark side. I love LinuxCNC, but I like actual CNCing more.

Good luck, hope you get it going. You might try an older computer - when I did my first install it was on a geriatric Dell Optiplex and I think it took about 5 minutes total.

I'm sure others have a different experience but I've never had success creating a bootable USB from Linux.
But if I use Win32DiskImager in Windows, they work every time! You just need to rename the file from .ISO to .IMG

Actually you don't even have to rename the file, just specify *.* instead of *.IMG in the file chooser.

I use DD and it always works, wheezy and stretch. Must have done that over 30 times.
Disable UEFI in bios, that is the only thing i can think of that could mess it up. I disable that on every computer i lay my hands on.

andypugh wrote: I have used Apple dd many times, so it definitely can work for this..

Actually, I have just remembered that all the recent times I used dd it was to make boot-cards for things like Pi's

The last time I wanted to do a scratch install of LinuxCNC I ended up giving up with USB sticks and buying a USB DVD drive.

www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessor...ck-21856102-pdt.html

I think. Then the installation went smoothly.