Thanks. I downloaded and installed the ISO hybrid and it worked. I installed the desktop environment by mistake, as I didn't want GNOME, but the install went fine.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]>wrote: > On 09/02/2011 01:54 PM, Kent Frazier wrote: > > I used Unetbootin for windows to create the bootable USB. It gave the > > option do download and install the stable net-install iso which I did. > > I'm afraid I don't have the URL to that image. I'll try downloading the > > image myself and see what happens. > > Please do not use Unetbootin. It's extraordinarily easy to shoot > yourself in the foot with it, and the processing it does to turn ISO > images into bootable USB images is unnecessary as well, since Debian now > makes 'ISO hybrid' images that can be directly imaged to your USB key: > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid > > I'm disappointed to find the install guide has no pointers as to how to > do this on Windows. I've helped a few Windows users struggle through > writing USB images using various tools, and it seems there were problems > with each of them. This one looks promising, but not being a Windows > user myself, I can't say whether it's any better than the others or not: > > https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer > > Ben >
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