Re: Putting It All On a Stick

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 30 December 2015 15:26:49 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 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:

> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >(Just a guess)

> 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

Then, once you have got a Debian installation, you can download the whole lot 
by the method suggested above, if you still want to do it.

Lisi