Have you tried dd'ing the .iso directly to the USB stick?

Example:
# dd if=/path/to/valentine/pre-alpha.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

(assuming /dev/sdb is your USB device).

-Jude

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
wrote:

> I have a three-or-four year-old laptop on which I am replacingg the hard
> drive. It
> seems to be old enough not to have proper virtualisatoin hardware. It
> currently
> dual-boots Debian testing, and, once in a blue moon, Windows XP.
>
> (So far the main problems I have had is to copy Windows' three partitions
> -- the one
> that runs, the so-called restore partition, and the EFI partition. I'm
> hoping that
> grub will find a way to make the running partition bootable. I managed to
> get
> clonezilla to copy the three partitions (even though the EFI partition
> seemed to
> violate what I know of the EFI specs in that it didn't have a FAT 12, 16,
> or 32
> filesystem. Maybe grub will be able to figure out how to boot what needs
> booting.)
>
> But maybe this is the ideal time to try the iso on the new drive and try
> it on real
> hardware instead of a virtual machine. If things were to go
> massively wrong, I could always put the old disk back in.
>
> Except I need instructions just how to do this. It does not have a CD or
> DVD drive,
> but will boot from USB stick.
>
> How do I go about putting the installation .iso onto a USB stick so it
> will boot?
> Debian should be good enough to accomplish that, riight?
>
> Or is there another installation method it might be more useful to test?
>
> -- hendrik
>
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