Hi, Erik Christiansen wrote: > after setting > geographic location and keyboard, the debian 9 install process threw up > a "Detect and mount CD-ROM" screen, insisting on a CD with suitable > install content. It seemed quite unaware that it is installing from USB.
Well, that's much deeper in the live-cd content than the fundamental ability to boot from USB stick. You will probably have to discuss this at debian-l...@lists.debian.org (You are invited to Cc me, as i'm the one who sent you there.) On the other hand, if you just want to _install_ Debian rather than to run it as "live" system, then you should for now use one of the installation ISOs. E.g. the small one which is just enough to fetch more packages from the internet: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-9.0.0-i386-netinst.iso or the DVD sized one with a more complete system: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-dvd/debian-9.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso Installation attempts from live-cd ISOs caused lots of complaints. (It is unclear how many attempts succeeded.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [isohybrid] > Ah, they're what's described as a .img on other sites, then. About all GNU/Linux distro ISOs nowadays have the isohybrid capability and are still called ".iso", because that's what they are: ISO 9660 filesystems with boot equipment where the ISO 9660 specs and their add-ons prescribe to put it. The key terms are "El Torito" and "System Area". An ".img" is normally a hard disk image which can be copied onto a random-read-write device and then immediately can be used as installed operating system. (Shall i call it "after live" system ?) Have a nice day :) Thomas
