On 2010-01-24 at 16:52:51 -0500, John Williams wrote:
> Stephen, thanks for your prompt reply. There was no problem installing
> the base OS from the net install .iso When the installer found I had no
> internet access it allowed me to continue to install the basic bit. It
> works well, even has
>On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Mark wrote:
>I have a couple old machines (i386) that I would like to be able to install
Debian on from an hdd partition on the same physical hdd that the Lenny
installation will reside on (on a different partition), so I can >avoid
purchasing new CD or DVD drives
Successfully installed Lenny using this method last night. The only
post-installation tweak was to comment out the cd-rom line in
/etc/apt/sources.list so aptitude doesn't try to look at the usb memory
stick when looking for updates.
Other than that she worked like a charm.
Mark
On Fri, Aug 7,
Mark:
>
> - used "shred" command to blank memory stick
> - used GParted to create 2 partitions: (1) a 1 GB FAT16 partition that I
> made bootable via Manage Flags; (2) the remainder (~6.6 GB) I formatted to
> ext3
> - followed the instructions here
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04
This was a bit trickier than I thought due to FAT file system's 4 GB file
size limit. My steps are summarized below in case they're helpful for
anyone else.. USB memory stick used was an OCZ Diesel 8 GB.
- used "shred" command to blank memory stick
- used GParted to create 2 partitions: (1) a 1
On 2009-07-30 17:00, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The
DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images.
Linux uses the udf fs for DVD & BlueRay disks.
I expected that,
Ron Johnson:
> On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The
>> DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images.
>
>
> Linux uses the udf fs for DVD & BlueRay disks.
>
I expected that, too, but:
$ file iso/debia
On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Mark:
Has anyone had success using the method described here
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (Section 4.3.2)
using a DVD .iso image?
I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The
DVD image is a regu
Mark:
>
> Has anyone had success using the method described here
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (Section 4.3.2)
> using a DVD .iso image?
I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The
DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images.
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