On Tue 08 Feb 2011 at 20:29:21 +0000, 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 > 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 that it couldn't find a correct > version. Could this be due to the transition from lenny to squeeze? A mirror problem, possibly. Trying again now would give an indication. > I'm also wondering if this is the correct procedure for installing a > working debian installation on USB stick. A problem I ran into yesterday > was that I installed grub onto the MBR and overwrote the MBR on my > laptop's HD. Fixed it now but would like to know how to get around that > and install it to the USB stick. Installing to a USB stick is no different from installing to any other device. GRUB tells you where it installing itself. Just verify it is the same device you partitioned. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209193352.GS32679@desktop
