On 20110726_190017, Dom wrote: > On 26/07/11 18:38, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >>for the love of everything that doesn't suck... > >> > >>could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian > >>from? > >> > (snip) > > > >Wow, I just spent the last five minutes laughing. Even though I don't > >feel this is the most productive way to ask for assistance, I must > >confess to being able to relate to it due to having felt similar > >frustration in the past. > > > >In trying myself to find an answer to how to get an iso for a > >usb-stick, I found it was a bit of a maze. From many of the links on > >the issue, I was led to this: > >http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > > > (snip) > > > >Anyway, seems confusing to me, too. Given that some usb-sticks can > >store even more material than a dvd, and given that usb-sticks are > >commonly the only removable drives on a lot of computer devices today > >(IE, laptops), why the links for installing Debian group usb-sticks as > >"other images (netboot, usb stick, floppy, etc)", rather than having a > >specific entry for it as they do for cdrom, dvd, and even blu-ray, is a > >mystery. > > > >So, can the netinst-cdrom image be used with a usb-stick? And if so, > >why the different listing for usb-sticks? And if not, why not? > > I don't know why the different listings exist. Maybe this part of the > Debian site could do with a partial rewrite. > > The Wheezy netinst-cdrom image can certainly be used with a USB stick > (and a USB hard disk too). I've successfully used this method to > install a number of test systems recently. > I'd like to try this. Can you give some details of what you did? 1. How did you partition the hard disk? 2. Did you put a file system on the partition? I'm thinking of using a 100G hard disk that I already have and I'd like to save most of it for general backup of system files. Can I do this? Does putting a partition table on it help save some the left over space?
3. What did you us to write the image? dd ? something else? 4. Is there something else that I should be asking about? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- 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/20110727015712.ge16...@cmpq.lan.gnu
