Re: Conviently having netinst.iso on a 32GB flash drive

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 03/06/2022 05:43 AM, songbird wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Currently I use
> > > dd if=netinst.iso bs=64M of=/dev/sdb
> >
> > I would like way to copy it such that:
> > 1. a legacy BIOS could launch it
> > 2. Gparted would not complain about block size
> > 3. there would be at least two partitions usable misc files
>
>
>    one of the nice people here posted a program for doing this
> called make_isombr_part (or something similar).  see if you
> can find it.  archive search for this group Feb-Mar 2017.
> [SNIP]

First Duckduckgo hit is
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg01268.html

Post by Thomas Schmitt.

As tonight's weather is scheduled to be flooding rain followed by 
unspecified amount of snow I'll have time to chase down any updates to 
it and do initial experiments with the ventoy package suggested by Joe.

Thanks