[root@Jehovah Downloads]# dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Alpha-2.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device 32+0 records in 31+0 records out 524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 1.26722 s, 414 MB/s
Lawrence, for installing based on the information above try:
for your understanding... the "./" in front of the filename notes your location to the system as "in my current directory" but irregardless the illegal operand came from the space between the "=" and the "F" in your second attempt. The first failure of running out of space is because dd was directed to a partition sda1. Also, be sure this is your usb drive, my experience is that sda is usually the hard drive. Broken down sda1 is: "sd"=serial device,"a" [or b,c,d,e,f, etc] is the devices in sequence as discovered, "1" [or 2,3,4, etc] are the partitions on the device. With that try the following command WITHOUT the usb plugged in:
ls /dev/sd*
which should give you something like:
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3
Then re-run the same command WITH the usb plugged in which should give you something like:
It is a great primer for understanding all we are talking about and can be done in about an evening.
Caution: "dd" is an aggressive program so be sure of the variables you writing to in the "of=" parts of the command. Also, the "status=progress" part is optional, lets you see your progress of the command.