Hi, jeremy ardley wrote: > The problem is the ASUS BIOS expects a FAT-32 formatted install from a USB > drive. dd of an iso does not produce the correct format.
But the amd64 netinst ISOs have a FAT partition with EFI-related programs. What happens if you try to boot the USB drive with the netinst ISO ? Any messages ? How exactly did you use dd for putting the ISO onto the USB stick ? > I had to go to Windows to write the media. > The solution is rufus on windows that was able to format the target drive > correctly and then copy all the files from the iso image. How is the USB drive partitioned now ? sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdX What filesystem types are to see within the partitions ? lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE /dev/sdX > There may be some linux way of doing this but I haven't found it yet. The author of Rufus says that for booting via EFI it should suffice to create a FAT filesystem in a partition of the USB stick, to mount it, and to copy the full tree of files from the mounted ISO into it. (Debian ISOs contain in ISO 9660 a copy of the file tree which are in the EFI partition.) Like (maybe with sudo): cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/fat Have a nice day :) Thomas
