Re: unable to boot from USB drive
On Saturday 23 December 2006 14:05, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB
> > drive. Instructions on
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en say that these
> > two files are sufficient to start the installation process.
>
> You don't copy boot.img onto the drive as a file. You need to
> overwrite the drive's existing data with the filesystem in that file.
> The manual you've linked to shows how to do that from a linux system.
Is there any way to prepare the USB disk for booting from windows itself? or
is it not possible?
raju
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