On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Florian Kriener <flor...@kriener.org> wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 18:31:18 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> wget >> http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz >> zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX > > Did you unmount your USB stick first and did you substitute sdX with the > right device file? If not zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX just creates the > file sdX and copies the unpacked boot.img.gz to it. > > You can find out which device you are using by calling mount from > command line and without any arguments after mounting your usb stick > like always. You should see something like > > /dev/sdf1 on /media/KINGSTON type ext3 > > where /dev/sdf would be the device of your usb stick. > > It is important to unmount your usb stick before writing to it via the > device file directly, else your data will get corrupted. > > Then you will have to mount your stick again, then copy your netinst.iso > to it. Note that your stick might no longer be called KINGSTON now.
I think I got it right: $ find /media/Debian\ Inst /media/Debian Inst /media/Debian Inst/ldlinux.sys /media/Debian Inst/linux /media/Debian Inst/initrd.gz /media/Debian Inst/initrdg.gz /media/Debian Inst/disk.lbl /media/Debian Inst/adgtk.cfg /media/Debian Inst/adtxt.cfg /media/Debian Inst/exithelp.cfg /media/Debian Inst/gtk.cfg /media/Debian Inst/menu.cfg /media/Debian Inst/prompt.cfg /media/Debian Inst/stdmenu.cfg /media/Debian Inst/syslinux.cfg /media/Debian Inst/txt.cfg /media/Debian Inst/f1.txt /media/Debian Inst/f10.txt /media/Debian Inst/f2.txt /media/Debian Inst/f3.txt /media/Debian Inst/f4.txt /media/Debian Inst/f5.txt /media/Debian Inst/f6.txt /media/Debian Inst/f7.txt /media/Debian Inst/f8.txt /media/Debian Inst/f9.txt /media/Debian Inst/vesamenu.c32 /media/Debian Inst/splash.png /media/Debian Inst/setup.exe /media/Debian Inst/g2ldr /media/Debian Inst/g2ldr.mbr /media/Debian Inst/win32-loader.ini /media/Debian Inst/debian-503-amd64-netinst.iso >> wget >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-503-am >> d64-netinst.iso >> cp debian-503-amd64-netinst.iso /media/KINGSTON > > Installing a new mbr should not be necessary, but if you do unmout your > stick before doing it. > >> sudo install-mbr /dev/sdX Ok let me try again without this. Thanks, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
