On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:30:39PM -0500, william moss wrote:
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> On 02/23/2015 04:24 PM, Hendrik Boom 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.)

Oh yes, Despite the EFI partition it is still a BIOS machine. Go figure.

> >
> > 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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> If you insist, there is an application to do this in Linux (one for
> windows also, do not remember the name):
> unetbootin
>
> or
>
> dd if=Fully-qualified-path-to-the-image of=Raw-USB-Device
>
> for example
> dd if=/home/daffyduck/download/devian.iso of=/dev/sde
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> use blkid to get the USB device.

Ah! That easy! I just need to copy the iso file as is to the USB stick and that's
enough to make it boot? There's nothing special about it being a USB stick or a CD?

marvellous!

-- hendrik