Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
It might be a good idea to add a note about how to use syslinux to install an MBR, as install-mbr seem to be Debian-specific. I prepared a etch USB-stick install from a RedHat system the other day by doing '$ cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
