On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzura <s...@noisynotes.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >>> Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation >>> ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot >>> drive from the first ISO image, can the files from the second and >>> third images be simply copied onto the USB drive, creating one >>> complete three-disk installation set on a single medium? >> >> You can do this most easily by using jigdo to get the single density Blu-Ray >> .iso - about 14GB - and use dd to write this directly to a USB stick. >> >> This gives you a 14GB .iso which includes all the Debian packages in one >> place that is directly bootable and will fit on a 16GB USB stick :) >> >> I did this at the release of Debian 8 to prove that it was feasible. >> >> This does assume that you have good 'net access to build the iso in >> the first place since tha packages will need to be downloaded from a >> network. >> >> All the very best, >> >> AndyC >> > Thanks, Andy. I downloaded the Windows Jigdo downloader and found a > mirror in my state, but I keep getting the following when trying to > download the Blu-ray image after several connect attempts: > result too large Maybe Windows has problems with huge files? I don’t know if it does, but maybe… Try doing it on a Linux machine. Rick
