The USB-key drive is often recommended for a) a small bootable system
to do system maintenance, b) a way to install a debian system.
I find directions on how to prepare a USB-key to do one or the other,
but not how to do both with the same USB-key. Is it possible to boot
to grub and in its menu choose between either doing maintenance on the
current hard disk or running the installer to install a basic debian
system on a new hard disk?
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Haines Brown, KB1GRM