Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB > drive. > Instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en > say that these two files are sufficient to start the installation process.
You don't copy boot.img onto the drive as a file. You need to overwrite the drive's existing data with the filesystem in that file. The manual you've linked to shows how to do that from a linux system. -- see shy jo
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