On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:45:13AM +0000, andy wrote: > Hi all > > A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a > laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB > memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in > whether or not the BIOS will recognise the USB stick at boot, and how I > might encourage it to do so, or - alternatively - get to the boot stage > and then do the rest with a memory stick. If this involves using > floppies to get into a boot routine, which of the files are best for > loading onto floppies for this purpose? > If you have another Linux machine on your network, then I would recommend a netboot install. Basically, you setup a dhcp server and a tftp server on your machine, which then serves up the installer kernel and the base packages (or all the packages if you download them), allowing you to do the install without the need to boot any physical media. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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