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Re: Putting It All On a Stick



Thomas, just dd the file? That really works? I've got to try this.
I've heard of this being the way to do things, but find it hard to
understand how it could work. I suppose the boot loaders know what to
do with ISO images.

On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:34:56 +0100, you 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
>


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