Re: Putting It All On a Stick

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Steve Matzura wrote:
>> didn't do anything to the medium before using a ISO2USB to write to it.
> 
> Do not use any repacker tool with the debian-cd ISOs.
> Rather copy them plainly onto the base device of the USB drive.
> E.g. onto /dev/sdc if it is at a Linux machine.
> See
>  https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb
> with the advise to use cp or dd and its link to
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Maybe you missed the run-up to this discussion.  Steve only has a Windows computer right now.  He’s trying to get Linux running so he can learn more about it.  I don’t know whether he wants to dual-boot or if he has a separate computer for Linux, but it doesn’t matter for this discussion.  He doesn’t have access to a Linux machine, so dd or cp are not available.  Whatever tools he uses have to run on Windows.

Enjoy!
Rick