On 04/27/2018 08:00 AM, songbird wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote: ...QUESTION: Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive?not yet... :) i'm currently having other bigger fish to fry...My environment is: OS is i386 Debian stable DVD is DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0 Flash drive has a: 4 GB ext2 partition 4 GB swap partitionget rid of swap partition and change ext2 to ext4 and use all space on drive for that.
Done. No change :{
don't ask me what i think of uefi...
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when using flash drive on main system you can use the main system drive swap (modify /etc/fstab on flash drive to use main system drive swap).
I know. When my first attempt failed I added the swap partition "just in case" debootstrap expected to see it on the destination device.
songbird