Live ISO Issue

Hi all - I'm having trouble writing the most recent live ISO file to a USB drive. I've downloaded the latest img from here:

https://www.domjudge.org/live/

And used the bzcat command to write data to my usb drive (as root)

bzcat domjudge-live_2018-01-09.img.bz2 > /dev/sdb

When I boot from the usb stick, I get the menu to pick what I want to boot the computer as (webserver and judgehost, just judgehost, etc), but whenever I pick an option, I drop into intramfs with an errir bout 1 table load failing and 7 loading successfully.

Does it matter what format the USB is in before I run the bzcat operation? I didn't think so... [image: Inline image 1]

Thanks (and I apologize if this has been answered before)! Matt Fahrenbacher