Have you tried dd'ing the .iso directly to the USB stick? Example: # dd if=/path/to/valentine/pre-alpha.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
(assuming /dev/sdb is your USB device). -Jude On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > I have a three-or-four year-old laptop on which I am replacingg the hard > drive. It > seems to be old enough not to have proper virtualisatoin hardware. It > currently > dual-boots Debian testing, and, once in a blue moon, Windows XP. > > (So far the main problems I have had is to copy Windows' three partitions > -- the one > that runs, the so-called restore partition, and the EFI partition. I'm > hoping that > grub will find a way to make the running partition bootable. I managed to > get > clonezilla to copy the three partitions (even though the EFI partition > seemed to > violate what I know of the EFI specs in that it didn't have a FAT 12, 16, > or 32 > filesystem. Maybe grub will be able to figure out how to boot what needs > booting.) > > But maybe this is the ideal time to try the iso on the new drive and try > it on real > hardware instead of a virtual machine. If things were to go > massively wrong, I could always put the old disk back in. > > Except I need instructions just how to do this. It does not have a CD or > DVD drive, > but will boot from USB stick. > > How do I go about putting the installation .iso onto a USB stick so it > will boot? > Debian should be good enough to accomplish that, riight? > > Or is there another installation method it might be more useful to test? > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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