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 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 Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:43:43AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > 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/instal

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