On Ma, 22 ian 13, 21:28:03, GoOSSBears wrote: > Thanks for previous responses concerning [1] and [2] on direct > image-copying of Debian-Testing for USb booting. > Single CD ISO-images of Testing boot fine on small USB drives using > dd/cat/cp for copying the image to /dev/sdX.
You're welcome, but I do read the list, it's not necessary to CC me. > Another question I have is whether multiple images of Testing can be > effectively used to boot a 4GB+ USB drive?? > A common-use scenario for this is to have the capability to boot up > separate instances (in their less-technical sense) of a particular > architecture's desktops on the same portable USB drive, e.g., i386 > KDE, i386 Xfce, i386 Lxde with an initial boot menu offering the > bootup choices of any of these three full installation images. > Theoretically, multiple *architectures* could also coexist and be made > bootable on the same USB drive capacity-permitting, e.g., mixed ISOs > of amd64, i386, ia64, ...etcetera. You want the multiarch images. DE selection is possible with all images if you go to (from memory) Advanced Options -> Alternative Desktop Environments Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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