Re: Putting It All On a Stick
On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 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
Maybe Windows has problems with huge files? I don’t know if it does, but maybe…
Try doing it on a Linux machine.
Rick
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