Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Per Carlson wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:15, Scott Ferguson
> <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes it's with the official documentation:-
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04.html.en
>
> Where the first sentence reads: "To prepare the USB stick, you will
> need a system where GNU/Linux is already running and where USB is
> supported.". So, to install Debian from an USB-stick you need a system
> where Debian (for example) is installed. Smells recursion here :-)
>
> IMHO there should be some hints what to do if the user currently is
> running something else than GNU/Linux, like Windows or OS X.

In Mac OS-X, it should be pretty straight-forward.  E.g. the "dd"  
command exists in standard OS-X.  There may be some tricks required to  
write directly to a USB stick device, but I'm guessing it's not  
impossible.

But the real answer to your point is this:  If you're thinking of  
running Linux, you probably have a friend who has Linux running.   
Friends are good things to have.

Rick