Re: Putting It All On a Stick
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 14:00:18 Steve Matzura wrote:
> I'm doing it to an NTFS filesystem drive.
>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:06:13 +0100, you wrote:
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> >On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 08:52:56PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> >AFAIK the DOS family file systems have a size limit of 4GB for a file.
> >So make sure the target file system can handle bigger files.
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> >(Just a guess)
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> >regards
> >- -- t
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Why not use the net-install? That fits _easily_ on a stick, even a small
stick, and away you go. Just do the basic install and then pull the rest off
the net. You don't need everything.
I never use anything else. You can get it with or without proprietary
network drivers:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/
(The official image (without drivers) is at the top of the page, the image
with drivers is towards the bottom of the page in the yellow box.)
Lisi
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