Jimmy, Just to close the thread and to thank you for your help, I ultimately discovered that my inability to get a netinst or netbook installation from a USB-key to work was not due to an error on the key. It seems a hardware error (new box).
That is, nothing boots except occasionally by accident. In one of those accidents, I was able to complete the installation of the operating system, but haven't been able to boot it since, and only once did a Debian Live on USB-key that worked well on another machine boot. BIOS seems to ignore the boot priority and try to boot what it wants. I've already lost too many days of work, and so will return to the problem of USB or BIOS next month. Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739u54ksk....@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info
