Hi all, Newbie questions as far as usb stuff is concerned. I have tried to figure out what's the difference between usb-hybrid iso's and usb-hdd .img's but have failed. Maybe the documentation is located somewhere on live.debian.net and I failed to find it. Please direct me if there is documentation somewhere . I did see the manual but it was all about the live-debian scripts rather than anything about the releases hosted there. At the very least a plug to the debian Installation guide would be nice.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ Reading up on Debian I just get this :- http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apas02.html.en A.2.2. USB memory stick It's also possible to install from removable USB storage devices. For example a USB keychain can make a handy Debian install medium that you can take with you anywhere. The easiest way to prepare your USB memory stick is to download any Debian CD or DVD image that will fit on it, and write the CD image directly to the memory stick. Of course this will destroy anything already on the memory stick. This works because Debian CD images are "isohybrid" images that can boot both from CD and from USB drives. There are other, more flexible ways to set up a memory stick to use the debian-installer, and it's possible to get it to work with smaller memory sticks. For details, see Section 4.3, “Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting”. Some BIOSes can boot USB storage directly, and some cannot. You may need to configure your BIOS to boot from a “removable drive” or even a “USB-ZIP” to get it to boot from the USB device. For helpful hints and details, see Section 5.1.5, “Booting from USB Memory Stick”. Now in section 4.3 http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en It says :- # cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX which in my case would be # cat debian.iso > /dev/sdb The question is, is there a way to get verbose output ? Also do I have to unmount the device before doing the above. Also is the command ~/debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-gnome-desktop_CD$ sudo dd if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso of=/dev/sdb is the same as the one given above ? Just a different command of doing the same thing or there is a difference ? Is there a way to get some sort of progress bar or something to know something is happening or not without resorting to just look at the blinking lights on the usb-key. Looking forward to make sense of it all. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADdDZRnj474LXhM6_ww-JFBOuNxNk7=juqmceaxuuy_peix...@mail.gmail.com
