Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: I've been playing a lot with USB installs lately. At the installing grub step you have to be careful to select the corect device, especially if you don't want to touch the laptop's HDD. And you might want to put /tmp on tmpfs. Other that that it's just a normal install.

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Feb 2011 at 20:29:21 +, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick > using: > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc And then copied myselected.iso to the stick? You can save yourself some work with cat myselected.iso > /dev/sdc >

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread Bob
On 02/09/2011 04:29 AM, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick using: zcat boot.img.gz> /dev/sdc and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying to install debian itself on a USB stick and the installer found it c

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 20:29:21, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick > using: > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc > > and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying > to install debian itself on a USB stick and the inst

Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick using: zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying to install debian itself on a USB stick and the installer found it could connect to a couple of the mirrors but tha