Hi, lwhona...@gmail.com wrote: > I was under the impression, if I copied the dvd image to a usb stick, > I could boot from the stick and start the install.
This is true. You have to put it as image onto the raw USB stick device. https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb proposes for GNU/Linux something like cp debian-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sdd where /dev/sdd is the device file representing the USB stick. For MS-Windows it proposes to use https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ An alternative is program Rufus with its "dd" mode. (I.e. not the mode by which it installs GNU/Linux onto USB stick.) It will not work if you put the ISO image into a partition of the USB stick or as data file into a filesystem on the USB stick. The copy operation is only credible if you afterwards (and after re-plugging) see a new partition table on the USB stick. Maybe MS-Windows will complain about a messed up GPT partition table. That's normal. Do not allow it to "repair" it. > Syslinux 4.03 2010-10-22 EDD © © 1994-2010 H. Peter Aanvin et al This does not look like the first bootloader message of a contemporary Debian ISO image. If booted via legacy BIOS it should say "ISOLINUX" rather than "Syslinux" and, depending on the age of your ISO image, tell a younger age and higher revision. debian-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso has in its boot image the strings ISOLINUX 6.04 20190226 Copyright (C) 1994-2015 H. Peter Anvin et al I assume you fell victim to some installation tool which unpacks ISOs and tries prepare an own bootloader to boot the unpacked system. Typically those programs offer to put several Linuxes onto the same stick. This might work or not work. In any case it circumvents the prepared boot procedure, which begins for legacy BIOS by the ISO's Master Boot Record and then hops to the same boot program image that is used when booting from DVD. > Do I need something else other than the iso image on a 32 GB thumb drive in > order to begin the install for Debian? You will need an internet connection for (semi-)automatic downloading of the bulk of Debian packages. (The advantage is that you can use a small "netinst" ISO of only a few hundred MB and a smaller USB stick.) Alternatively you could work with a Blu-ray sized ISO, which needs some effort to download if you do not yet have a running Debian system. E.g. debian-10.1.0-amd64-BD-1 from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/ by help of an intermediate Debian Live system https://wiki.debian.org/JigdoOnLive ------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the archives: A. Söldner wrote: > I think you've to make the USB-Stick bootable and write the first ISO to the > Stick. This is outdated since about Debian 6 (2012 ?). We now have "isohybrid". Gene Heskett wrote: > Done right, you see the contents, but not the iso file. True. But you would see the many files also if you copied the ISO onto a partition instead onto the whole stick. In this case, the stick's partition table would not change. (It would not boot because the ISO's MBR would not be in place for the legacy BIOS to find it.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
