Re: Putting It All On a Stick
Thanks, Andy. I downloaded the Windows Jigdo downloader and found a
mirror in my state, but I keep getting the following when trying to
download the Blu-ray image after several connect attempts: result too
large
>On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
>> Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation
>> ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot
>> drive from the first ISO image, can the files from the second and
>> third images be simply copied onto the USB drive, creating one
>> complete three-disk installation set on a single medium?
>
>You can do this most easily by using jigdo to get the single density Blu-Ray
>.iso - about 14GB - and use dd to write this directly to a USB stick.
>
>This gives you a 14GB .iso which includes all the Debian packages in one
>place that is directly bootable and will fit on a 16GB USB stick :)
>
>I did this at the release of Debian 8 to prove that it was feasible.
>
>This does assume that you have good 'net access to build the iso in
>the first place since tha packages will need to be downloaded from a
>network.
>
>All the very best,
>
>AndyC
>
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