Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-27 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 26-12-2006 om 17:29 schreef Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 14:51, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Op 23-12-2006 om 14:17 schreef Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > > > Is there any way to prepare the USB disk for booting from windows itself? > > > or is it not possible? > > > > Visit a friend

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 14:51, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 23-12-2006 om 14:17 schreef Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > > Is there any way to prepare the USB disk for booting from windows itself? > > or is it not possible? > > Visit a friend or a computerclub and ask them to write the boot info > on your

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-26 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 23-12-2006 om 14:17 schreef Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > > Is there any way to prepare the USB disk for booting from windows itself? or > is it not possible? Visit a friend or a computerclub and ask them to write the boot info on your USB stick. Cheers Geert Stappers (saying "You don't need Micro

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-23 Thread Henrik Enberg
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB > > drive. > > Instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en > > say that these two files are sufficient to start the instal

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 23 December 2006 14:05, Joey Hess wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB > > drive. Instructions on > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en say that these > > two files are sufficient to star

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-23 Thread Joey Hess
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB > drive. > Instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en > say that these two files are sufficient to start the installation process. You don't copy boot.img onto t

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-23 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > However, I am unable to boot from the USB drive. I changed the boot sequence > in the Bios and chose it boot from the USB drive. But the system always boots > into windows and never boots from the USB drive. Either your pc does not recognize the usb drive or you have

unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am using Dell Inspiron E1505. Currently it has Windows XP and I wanted to install Debian Etch on it using the USB drive method. I downloaded boot.img.gz from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/rc1/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz and gunzipped it on a debian Etch ma