Hi, i wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget
Max Nikulin wrote: > Is there a reason why the page is not cross-linked with > <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CreateUSBMedia>? After skimming over that page, i see problems: - It links to https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ which links to the non-stable daily Debian Testing images https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ - It does not mention that superuser powers are needed for copying to /dev/sdX and that a wrong substitute for X can spoil a big spinning disk if present. - It explains how to format an additional partition by mkdosfs but not how to create the partition. But that step is the difficult one, because the partitions in a Debian netinst ISO are so weird with a reason. I think fdisk is unscrupulous enough. But in general the hard-to-digest partitions of a Debian amd64 ISO caused other distros to abandon a few old machines in favor of a more conventional partition layout in their installation ISOs. - It proposes to install firmware in the additional partition. I understand that the netinst ISOs have become so big because they now contain lots of firmware. - In its "Method 3" it proposes SYSLINUX as boot loader. Although it is known to work via EFI from USB stick (other than from optical media), i have doubts that the proposed command makes the stick ready for EFI. Quite surely it does not care for Secure Boot. It would make sense to link from CreateUSBMedia section "Method 1" to XorrisoDdTarget, maybe even from "Method 2". But i have few idea how i should motivate a link from XorrisoDdTarget, which is for users who rarely operate as superuser on raw device files, to CreateUSBMedia which looks like being for daring testers. Proposals would be welcome. (Or a courageous wiki editor who feels entitled to tell the developers what they shall tell the users.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
