Re: business card image, where?
The Monday 06 May 2013 22:33:45, Paul Condon wrote :
> On 05/06/2013 07:32 AM, Brian wrote:
> > On Mon 06 May 2013 at 06:40:08 -0600, Paul Condon wrote:
> >> On 05/06/2013 05:57 AM, Brian wrote:
> >>> On Mon 06 May 2013 at 05:47:36 -0600, Paul Condon wrote:
> >>>> I want to make a 'business card' install CD as mentioned in old
> >>>> boiler plate at www.debian.org, but I can't fathom the organization
> >>>> of the hot links there. What is
> >>>> the URL of the actual iso image that I need to download and burn
> >>>> onto a blank CD?
> >>>
> >>> It is no longer produced.
> >>
> >> I hope it can be revived. It has been a useful tool for me when my
> >> attempts to dist-upgrade fail, as they usually do.
> >
> > It is very, very unlikely it will be.
> >
> >> My 6.0.4 business card, worked at getting me running on wheezy, and
> >> even offered to install 'jessie', or 'squeeze', which it called 'old
> >> stable'. The beauty of business card is that the facts of what is to
> >> be downloaded are not burnt into the physical CD. I hope I can find
> >> a copy of the old iso image in the rubble of my old system.
> >
> > The netboot mini.iso should suit your desire for beauty. It can be seen
> > as basically the businesscard ISO without the installer components.
>
> Can this mini.iso be written to a USB memory stick, as well as to a
> blank CD?
> What program do I use? Surely not wodim,
> Perhaps 'dd'. When I plug in the stick that I want to use, it indicates
> that there is already a partition on it, i.e. there is both
> /dev/sdg and
> /dev/sdg1.
> Which should I use for the of=???
> If not 'dd'. What program?
>
>
> TIA
Some reading:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
Thierry
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