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<h2>Hybrid installer image for optical and USB devices</h2>
<p>Joey Hess blogged about a <a
href="http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/Debian_USB_install_from_hybrid_iso/">hybrid
debian-installer for USB and optical discs</a>. While it has been possible to
boot debian-installer from USB sticks for quite some time, the procedure
to make such a bootable USB stick has been quite difficult. The new
hybrid ISO image can be burned to CDs as well as simply copied raw
(with <tt>cat</tt>) to USB devices. It is also very easy to add additional
firmware. Joey also mentions that due to problems with the jigdo
templates, currently only a minimal hybrid image is created, but he points
out that it is very easy to make the existing ISO images suitable for USB
sticks by using the <tt>isohybrid</tt> command from the <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/syslinux">syslinux</a> package.</p>
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