Reuben Thomas wrote: > In section 2.2, "Installation media", it would be good to have a reference > to section 3.7, "Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux system". I > spent ages trying to work out if this installation method was possible > (perhaps I should have read the table of contents). > > It might also be worth mentioning in section 3.7 that this is an > alternative to remote installation. I intend to install Debian on a > machine that has no CD ROM drive and no hard disk this way: by installing > to a USB key on another machine, then plugging the key into the target > machine and using a boot floppy to boot the whole thing. I imagine that > this sort of thing is becoming more common with the advent of affordable > large USB keys and similar media. In fact d-i supports booting directly from a USB key (or with a boot floppy), and doing the install from that, with no other media. It's documented in the INSTALLATION-HOWTO. -- see shy jo
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