On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 09:24:47AM +0100, hw wrote: > On Mon, 2024-02-12 at 13:41 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > > I thought it'd be a nice idea to combine any and all distribution media > > for a release into a single medium--a USB drive, of course. I'd start by > > creating my USB drive by extracting the first DVD to it, thereby > > ensuring the boot block and boot material is where it should be. But > > then what do I do with the additional media? > > [...] > > Maybe put a copy of a Debian mirror onto another partition. >
"All distribution media" - including source - is a very large USB stick. If you want the DVD contents, for binaries on one architecture - say amd64, start with the 16G image or the Blu-Ray and you've got it fairly well - you will need to use jigdo to do this.. There have been discussions on this a few times on the list - look back and someone posted a script to do this. >From experience: writing even 29G reliably to a USB3 stick takes a _long_ time. The odds of a bit error while writing much more go up significantly. For Debian on a desert island - a laptop with a mirror on a 4G NVME would be fine. Mirror is probably a more reliable way to go. All the best, Andy
