Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:08:58 +0200, Jan Olav Agle wrote:I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not wasting time, I dd'ed the netinstall iso onto the stick and installed.(...) Are you aware of this? 4.3.1. Preparing a USB stick using a hybrid CD or DVD image http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid Greetings,
I realize that page is explicitly referring to "Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 system (codename “squeeze”)".
I'm considering moving from Windows to Linux. I've downloaded the iso's of about a dozen distro's chosen on disparate desires. Most, but not all, are Debian based/inspired/...
I have fully equipped desktop machine and a laptop w/o a functioning CD drive.
I wish to determine for each distro: 1. will it run from a USB stick on both machines? how well? 2. how well do I like the result? Questions: 1. how compatible is it with Debian based distro's? 2. how compatible with non-Debian distro's?One of my goals is to keep as much as possible the same between distro's. Given that goal, is there another method to set up my comparison?
TIA