On Monday, 23 de February de 2015 21:35:47 Hendrik Boom escribió: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:30:39PM -0500, william moss wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 02/23/2015 04:24 PM, Hendrik Boom 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.) > > Oh yes, Despite the EFI partition it is still a BIOS machine. Go figure. > > > > 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 > > > > If you insist, there is an application to do this in Linux (one for > > windows also, do not remember the name): > > unetbootin > > > > or > > > > dd if=Fully-qualified-path-to-the-image of=Raw-USB-Device > > > > for example > > dd if=/home/daffyduck/download/devian.iso of=/dev/sde > > > > use blkid to get the USB device. > > Ah! That easy! I just need to copy the iso file as is to the USB stick and > that's enough to make it boot? There's nothing special about it being a > USB stick or a CD? > > marvellous!
BIOS boots by copying the first 512 bytes of the first disk (whatever it is) on memory, and railroading from that on. Long live to the 5 1/4 boot disk! er Envite -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? OpenPGP key: 1586 50C8 7DBF B050 DE62 EA12 70B4 00F3 EEC7 C372 Spiral galaxies always have at least TWO arms.
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