On 8/31/24 05:48, John Conover wrote:
>
> What does a "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso" do
> with an .iso?
A .iso file is a disk image file stored it ISO 9660 file format. An iso is essentially and image of a CD or DVD. You can burn the iso to a disk very easily or write it to a USB drive.
You have enough data in the iso file to start a Debian installation,
most of the PKGs will be fetched from the internet.
> Can it be coverted to a USB. How?
>
You can write the iso to a USB drive using the dd command. Optionally you can use
https://etcher.balena.io/ which provides a simple GUI front end.
cp <ISOFILE> <NAME-OF-USB-DEVICE>.
--
John Doe