On 05/06/2013 05:20 PM, Brian wrote:
On Tue 07 May 2013 at 00:09:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 14:33:45, Paul Condon wrote:
Can this mini.iso be written to a USB memory stick, as well as to a
blank CD?
You already have a reference for that. Something that is not widely
known about the mini.iso is that it can also be written on the
to-be-installed media ;)
Which includes the USB stick the ISO is on. So you can boot d-i from the
stick, provide needed firmware from the same stick and install to it.
Some would see that as value for money, :)
I don't understand why one would want to install grub on the memstick as
if it
were to become somehow self booting. The bios handles booting from the
mini.iso because the mini.iso has been crafted to be booted by the bios.
Wouldn't grub be superfluous? Or what?
And isn't needed firmware already part of the bios (which is pretty much
all the firmare in a PC) . Or would grub/firmware a different way to
boot instead of the code in the mini.iso??
But beware! If dd, cat or cp is used to write the ISO to the stick GRUB
will not install on it because it detects the signature of an isohybrid\.
The solution is
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX count=100
prior to partitioning. /dev/sdX is the USB stick. The wrong 'X' could
ruin your day.
But, as I read the instructions, the is no partitioning done, just a write with
dd, cat, or dd. So prior to what step is the above done? But, agree that it is
a good idea to write only onto the device intended, and not clobber some other
device on the computer on which one is doing the preperation of the memstick. I
am confused.
And I wish I had better control of the text editor in Icedove. This
looks very messy.
In any case, I think I have succeeded in putting mimi.iso on a USB flash
drive in a way that can be booted using the bios of the computer on
which I wish to install Wheezy. And I could not have done it without
your advice and counsel.
Thanks.
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