Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:08:58 +0200, Jan Olav Agle wrote:
I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends.
On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed
halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not
wasting time, I dd'ed the netinstall iso onto the stick and installed.
(...)
Are you aware of this?
4.3.1. Preparing a USB stick using a hybrid CD or DVD image
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid
Greetings,
I realize that page is explicitly referring to "Debian
GNU/Linux 6.0 system (codename “squeeze”)".
I'm considering moving from Windows to Linux. I've
downloaded the iso's of about a dozen distro's chosen on
disparate desires. Most, but not all, are Debian
based/inspired/...
I have fully equipped desktop machine and a laptop w/o a
functioning CD drive.
I wish to determine for each distro:
1. will it run from a USB stick on both machines? how well?
2. how well do I like the result?
Questions:
1. how compatible is it with Debian based distro's?
2. how compatible with non-Debian distro's?
One of my goals is to keep as much as possible the same
between distro's. Given that goal, is there another method
to set up my comparison?
TIA
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