[SOLVED] Re: cannot boot from USB stick using boot.iso

2010-07-10 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-10 11:00 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 10/07/10 10:50 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> >> I would expect the dd to work fine. Does your bios have a choice of >> booting from usb-cdrom and usb-hd? Have you tried both settings? > > Just yesterday I installed Debian from its netinstall image. I just > dd'ed

Re: cannot boot from USB stick using boot.iso

2010-07-10 Thread JD
On 07/10/2010 07:43 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 10/07/10 10:37 PM, JD wrote: >> R U sure the iso is meant for an ext3 FS and not for a vfat FS? > How does it matter? I mounted the iso as a loop device, mounted the USB > stick, and copied over the files. While copying, it should not matter > what file sy

Re: cannot boot from USB stick using boot.iso

2010-07-10 Thread H.S.
On 10/07/10 10:50 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > I would expect the dd to work fine. Does your bios have a choice of > booting from usb-cdrom and usb-hd? Have you tried both settings? Just yesterday I installed Debian from its netinstall image. I just dd'ed it my USB stick and then booted the compute

Re: cannot boot from USB stick using boot.iso

2010-07-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:15:04 -0400 "H.S." wrote: ...snip... > I burned boot.iso to my 256 MB USB stick using dd command: > sudo dd if=Downloads/boot.iso of=/dev/sdd > > and got the image contents in /dev/sdd1. However, the computer does > not detect that USB stick as bootable (my motherboard c

Re: cannot boot from USB stick using boot.iso

2010-07-10 Thread H.S.
On 10/07/10 10:37 PM, JD wrote: > R U sure the iso is meant for an ext3 FS and not for a vfat FS? How does it matter? I mounted the iso as a loop device, mounted the USB stick, and copied over the files. While copying, it should not matter what file systems at both ends are, does it? > I have in

Re: cannot boot from USB stick using boot.iso

2010-07-10 Thread JD
On 07/10/2010 07:15 PM, H.S. wrote: > I want to install Fedora 13 on a computer which is currently running > Debian (going to make it multiboot). I have downloaded boot.iso from > Fedora 13 tree > (http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso) > and also Fe

cannot boot from USB stick using boot.iso

2010-07-10 Thread H.S.
I want to install Fedora 13 on a computer which is currently running Debian (going to make it multiboot). I have downloaded boot.iso from Fedora 13 tree (http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso) and also Fedora-13-x86_64-netinst.iso (http://linux.nssl.n