Re: Putting It All On a Stick
Um, if I had one, I would. Thats the whole purpose of this
exercise--to get me a Linux machine, so I just thought I'd do it the
easy way.
Jigdo ran all night and I got nothing. In fact, it's still trying.
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:34:05 -0800, you wrote:
>
>On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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