Make the USB stick instructions more failsafe, and add a warning about erasing the stick

pull/16/head
Hamish Coleman 7 years ago
parent 6450d4a25e
commit 00230d7105

@ -55,16 +55,19 @@ will not complete.
make patched.x230.img
7. Insert your USB stick and determine what device name it has.
This command should help you find the right device:
(Note: chose a USB stick with nothing important on it, it will
be erased in the next step) This command should help you find the
right device:
lsblk -d -o NAME,SIZE,LABEL
8. Write the bootable patched image onto the USB stick device
8. Write the bootable patched image onto the USB stick device (replace
the "sdx" in this command with the correct name for your usb stick)
WARNING: if you do not have the right device name, you might overwrite
your hard drive!
sudo dd if=patched.x230.img of=/dev/sdb
sudo dd if=patched.x230.img of=/dev/sdx
Your USB stick is now ready to boot and install the patched firmware.

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