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Re: unable to boot from USB drive



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.

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