Re: custom usb install image

Douglas Allan Tutty said: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 06:16:25PM -0500, nicholas wrote: mount -oloop boot.img /mnt fdisk /dev/sda # create one 300MB bootable FAT16 partition mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 mkdir /target mount /dev/sda1 /target (cd /mnt && tar -cpf - .)|(cd /target && tar xpf -) { so th

Re: custom usb install image

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 06:16:25PM -0500, nicholas wrote: > > mount -oloop boot.img /mnt > fdisk /dev/sda # create one 300MB bootable FAT16 partition > mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 > mkdir /target > mount /dev/sda1 /target > (cd /mnt && tar -cpf - .)|(cd /target && tar xpf -) { so this copies everyth

Re: custom usb install image

Thanks Doug, I tried to follow your directions to the letter, except for mc, as I don't have enough familiarity with it. Here's what I tried: wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz gunzip boot.img.gz mount -oloop boot.img /mnt

Re: custom usb install image

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 04:26:25PM -0500, nicholas wrote: > I've had success installing Etch from a USB stick prepared using > the easy way described in the manual[1], but I've had no luck > with the flexible way. > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en > > Either the B