On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:03:18 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 08/19/2011 02:46 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:28:44 -0400, Scott Reagan wrote: >> >>> I tried to install the small verion of debian, the 32 bit version and >>> it wouldn't read my dvd rom so I couldn't finish the install. please >>> help. I really want this os system and have heard great things about >>> it. >> >> You can try to install from an USB device. >> >> Greetings, >> >> > For purposes of the discussion. > > This week I tried using AMD64 and i386 businesscard installations from > USB flash drives to install Debian testing on two different systems. I > used builds from both 08/15 and 08/17 -- all of them verified with > SHA512. These builds all failed to install -- giving me verification > errors with several different mirrors, including the main US one. (All > of the d-i steps up until the step immediately after choosing the mirror > worked perfectly.) > > Those same images burned to CD-R gave me perfect installations on both > machines. > > This has me wondering if there was something wrong with the hybrid > images so that they wouldn't work with the standard method of > preparation, namely > > # dd if=<name-of-hybrid-image>.iso of=/dev/sdX > > wouldn't work. I'm worried that an attempt at using a usb device may > fail, too. > > Since Scott said "dvd-rom" I'm wondering why the small image was written > to that type of disc. I can't imagine why, but maybe the image just > needs to be written to a standard CD+R or CD-R disc in order to work. > > I'd also be curious to know exactly what Scott meant by the words > "wouldn't read my dvd rom so I couldn't finish the install". The word > "finish" implies that there was at least no initial problem reading the > disc. Does Scott mean that the install process failed at the "Detect > CD-ROM" point, or something else? I'm wondering if he could have got the > mirror authentication error that I kept getting when trying to install > from a usb device.
I haven't done Wheezy, but I've done Squeeze from a "netinst" download. I used unetbootin to put it onto a USB and it worked flawlessly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j2oufc$uhg$1...@dough.gmane.org
