On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:35:32PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote:
>
> Have you tried dd'ing the .iso directly to the USB stick?

No. There are enough things that can potentially go wrong that
I thought it might be best to get instructions first, rather than
to be debugging soething totally wrong.

>
> Example:
> # dd if=/path/to/valentine/pre-alpha.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
>
> (assuming /dev/sdb is your USB device).
>
> -Jude

Thanks.

-- hendrik

>
> 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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