Partial (clumsy) success [Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick]

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Rick Thomas wrote: On Apr 12, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. There was no prob

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Rick Thomas wrote: As per debian list etiquette my reply is at the bottom... On Apr 12, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5 a

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 09:01:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. Th

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
As per debian list etiquette my reply is at the bottom... On Apr 12, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. > Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. > I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 09:01:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. > Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. > I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. > There was no problem

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:01:05 Richard Owlett wrote: I rebooted to an operable system and created a large partition on the remainder of the flash drive. I then attempted to copy DVDs to the flash drive using first cp -r -l /media/cdrom0 /media/mydrive/disk1 [snip]

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:01:05 Richard Owlett wrote: > I rebooted to an operable system and created a large partition on > the remainder of the flash drive. I then attempted to copy DVDs > to the flash drive using first >      cp -r -l /media/cdrom0 /media/mydrive/disk1 [snip] >      cp -r -l

Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

2014-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5 as test case - it's what I have available. There was no problem copying the first DVD to the beginning of the USB stick with dd. I