Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:04:50AM -0700, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine, > and the installer is also working correctly. > > Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help. > > Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer & Co. :-) If you have t

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-01 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine, and the installer is also working correctly. Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help. Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer & Co. :-) Regards, Santanu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Adrian Levi
On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, you said "pointing the installer to the local repository". How exactly > is this done? When the cdrom detection failed, at a console, I found > a directory named '/cdrom' already created (empty). I linked this directory > so

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 29 February 2008 07:15, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > > Hello Everybody, > > > > I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB > > USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: > Why don't

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 29 February 2008 07:15, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB > USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Regards, > Santanu Why don't you follow what is said there: htt

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I try to boot from the pendrive, it boots just fine, and the > installer > > starts OK. But then, it cannot find the cdrom. Thats OK, because the

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Adrian Levi
On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB > USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: > > o Formatted my pen drive as a single 2GB FAT16 partition (/dev/sdb) > o Did a "# syslinux -sf /d

Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-28 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hello Everybody, I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: o Formatted my pen drive as a single 2GB FAT16 partition (/dev/sdb) o Did a "# syslinux -sf /dev/sdb" to make it bootable o Downloaded "http://cdimage.debian.org/debia