On Sun 31 May 2015 at 13:56:30 -0700, Charles wrote: > Correct. Sorry, I'm a little frustrated.
Let's see what we can do to remove the frustration > Two directions: > > 1) I've found lots of solutions regarding how to refer the install process > to > a URL (web server). This is a bit of an overkill. Fine. We'll agree with that. > 2) I've been told repeatedly that doing a dd copy to a USB stick gives one > the ability to create a writeable partition on the same USB stick, only to That is correct. > have such advice withdrawn when I point out that fdisk, gparted, and kparted > indicate that there are four partitions (fdisk) or no partitions (gparted and > kparted) on the USB thumb drive. Fdisk won't add a partition beyond > /dev/sdb4, and gparted and kparted wipe out the existing (dd copy) data when > they create a new partition. dd an i386 netinst image to a USB stick. Now do 'fdisk -l /dev/sdX' and post the output. 'X' can be found from the the last few lines of the output of the dmesg command. It might be a or b etc. Repeat for an amd64 netinst image and again post the output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/31052015224320.30f932095...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
