Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 04:13:10PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> >I've been purchasing the multiple DVD sets as I am limited to a
> >dial-up connection.
> >
> >As 64GB flash drives are readily available I would find it
> >convenient to have a complete distro on a single device.
> >
> >I've queried the company I've been buying the DVDs from with no
> >response.
>
> That's a shame. I've been selling CDs and DVDs for years, and in the
> last couple of years I've had folks ask me for more-or-less complete
> dumps of the archive onto USB hard drives and similar. I'm happy to
> oblige - it's not much effort, and these days it's easier to ship a
> USB stick or hard drive than a stack of 10 DVDs. This also solves the
> package signature problem.
>
> That *doesn't* yet work as a bootable installable disk, but it's not
> too hard to fix that side. It should be possible to play with things a
> little to turn a netinst CD image and a mirror into a larger bootable
> thing, though. Feel free to sunmit a wishlist bug against the
> debian-cd package and I'll see what I can do. Patches even more
> welcome!
>
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Blu-Ray .iso is bootable if you DD it to a stick. Double density BD would be ~32GB
and fit on one stick ... I did try this when Wheezy was first released
AndyC
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