Re: Install failed - USB flash to USB drive [SOLVED]

[Mark Filipak <markfilipak.linux@gmail.com>]

On 2013/3/2 8:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Wait a minute....
>
> Mark Filipak wrote:
> > I successfully installed this:
> >
> > debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso
> >
> > to a USB flash in Windows with this:
> >
> > dd bs=1M if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso od=e:
>
> dd, in Windows?
>
> which version of dd for windows did you use?

The latest version of 'dd' is 0.6beta3. It can be downloaded from http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

As of ver 0.6beta1, it accepts 2 new switches: 'id=' and 'od='. These are input drive and output drive. The argument for these switches is the Windows drive letter and colon.

For example,
dd bs=1M if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso of=e:/   <-- doesn't work but
dd bs=1M if=debian-live-6.0.6-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso od=e:    <-- does work.

> > (where 'e:' is the USB flash's Windows device letter - note that the 'od=' switch is not documented in command-line help.)
> >
> > Then I booted from the USB flash and installed Debian + LXDE desktop to a USB drive.
> >
> > (The GRUB bootloader install failed toward the end of the installation.)
>
> Isn't the the same failure you've been reporting all along?  How is this now "solved?"

You trimmed off the end of my post, Miles. I threw away the thread so I can't give you the last 2 lines but I'll paraphrase:

The GUI Debian Installer apparently is broken. I succeeded by using the text-mode Debian Installer.