Okay –
So I downloaded the debian iso, and burned it to CD. It was then that I discovered that my USB DVD writer, is now dearly departed. (In other words, it doe NOT work. As in: “It’s dead, Jim!”)
Soooo. What do I do…..Well I have a usb flash drive, but how do I get the iso image over to the flash drive?
AHA! dd to the rescue!
My usb flash drive is: /dev/sdd
sudo dd if=debian-6.0.0-i386-CD-1.iso of=/dev/sdd
Now sync the output.
sync
sync flushes any buffers in memory to the appropriate device.
about 20 minutes later, I was able to boot off the usb install image, and install debian.
Honestly, I did not know if this would work, but I didn’t know if it would NOT work! It does!
Thank you #debian guy for pointing out that it’s DEVICE not partition in dd. (don’t use it that often!)
Wayno
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