Re: [SLUG] installation

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Oct 06 2009 - 22:52:39 EDT


On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Dylan William Hardison wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 03:28PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>> In a while (days/weeks) I'll build a machine.[1] It'll have USB ports
>> and presumably the ability to boot from a USB hard drive (which I have)
>> but it probably won't have a {C,DV}D drive and I don't have a USB {C,DV]D
>> drive. So: what do I need to do to the USB hard drive besides make it
>> bootable to allow installing some flavor of Linux from it? Or will it be
>> easier to yank out the new machine's hard drive (actually an IDE->CF
>> adapter) and take it to a machine that _does_ have an optical drive? If
>> I do that I foresee problems in naming drives.
>
> Step 1: find a usb stick , 512M would be a good size.

I have a 2 GiB one. That should be fine, yes?

> Step 2: Download hd-media for lenny[1]
> Step 3: copy to the USB stick, which is probably /dev/sdb or so:
> % zcat boot.img.gz | sudo dd if=/dev/stdin of=/dev/sdb
> Step 4: Mount the disk (I usually use /mnt for this)
> % sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt
> Step 5: Download a debian netinst IS[2],
> copy it into /mnt, with an 8 + 3 filename:
> % cp debian-503-i386-netinst.iso /mnt/debian.iso
> Step 6: unmount /mnt
> % umount /mnt
>
> You now have a bootable usb stick which the BIOS will see as either a
> usb-floppy or usb-cdrom (I forget).

Excellent, thanks.

> References:
> [1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
> [2] http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-netinst.iso

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