2017-05-13 20:44 GMT+02:00 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk>: > > On Sat 13 May 2017 at 13:07:31 +0200, Błażej Popławski wrote: > > > I don't have to do this for purpose. I was just wondering if it can be done > > without much work spent on it. > > > > This laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite A300. > > Main OS is Win7. > > I have plenty of space on my hard drive. As I wrote, I'm just curious about > > the answer. > > Does your curiosity extend to trying out any of the ideas expressed in > this thread? Those who participated (and others) would find it useful to > know how you went about booting into a Debian OS from a USB stick. The > work involved seems very slight. > > -- > Brian. > >
As for now I've tried to do the same thing (for Ubuntu) as the author of the wiki page which I linked at the beginning. But it didn't work for me. I saw that someone wrote, that the drivers for SD are loaded at the booting time, so I assume that it should be straightforward: install OS (Debian) on SD with /boot and bootloader on USB stick. Without any additional work. I've done it once but it didn't started and in the act of anger I formatted both, SD and USB stick. Then I realized that I didn't set the boot flag for USB. :) Installation took long hours (I read something about that issue) and for now I don't have the time to repeat that process.
