Re: Installing Trixie netinst iso on ASUS motherboard - solution

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

jeremy ardley wrote:
> The problem is the ASUS BIOS expects a FAT-32 formatted install from a USB
> drive. dd of an iso does not produce the correct format.

But the amd64 netinst ISOs have a FAT partition with EFI-related
programs.
What happens if you try to boot the USB drive with the netinst ISO ?
Any messages ?

How exactly did you use dd for putting the ISO onto the USB stick ?


> I had to go to Windows to write the media.
> The solution is rufus on windows that was able to format the target drive
> correctly and then copy all the files from the iso image.

How is the USB drive partitioned now ?
  sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdX

What filesystem types are to see within the partitions ?
  lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE /dev/sdX


> There may be some linux way of doing this but I haven't found it yet.

The author of Rufus says that for booting via EFI it should suffice to
create a FAT filesystem in a partition of the USB stick, to mount it,
and to copy the full tree of files from the mounted ISO into it.
(Debian ISOs contain in ISO 9660 a copy of the file tree which are in
the EFI partition.)
Like (maybe with sudo):
  cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/fat


Have a nice day :)

Thomas