linux live usb, dd comand, need help

[Loner]

salutations my fellow open source brethren, im running ubuntu and am attempting to make a kali live usb, the reasons for such aren’t important. i downloaded the iso and with the command terminal, did the following

-went to directory of the iso (in this case my downloads folder)

-and ran

sudo dd if=kali-linux-1.1.0a-amd64.iso of=/media/e bs=512k

-i received

dd: failed to open ‘/media/e’: Is a directory

i have zero idea what im doing so any help is greatly appreciated

[TideRower]

The 'of' variable has to be the device itself not the folder it's mounted in, i.e. /dev/sdx

where x is the appropriate drive letter e.g. sdb.

Be sure you get this right since this command deletes everything on /dev/sdx.

Also the usb drive must not be mounted. If it automounts you have to unmont it first.

[Neil]

Tiderider is correct.

You can use fdisk -l or lsblk to check the device you are trying to use.