Re: [PLUG] install debian from live usb

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

I tried following the instructions from Will's link twice and both times ended up with flash drives with unreadable messed up partition tables.  I am making a new debian live usb by the method that I tried before and trying the deb bootstrap.  

I am zeroing out one of these flash drives, with dd and repartitioning and

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:11 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <ksbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Will Dyson <will.dyson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I would like to do is use the flash drive to install Debian from the
>> bootable flash drive to the server.  I booted the flash drive to try it out
>> and it is not immediately apparent to me how to install.  Is there an easy
>> way to do this?  Would I be better off with a bootable knoppix usb drive
>> instead of this debian image I dd'd to my flash drive?
>
> If you want to install, you probably don't want to be using the
> DebianLive image. Unlike Ubuntu or similar, Debian's installer is
> separate from the live system image.
>
> See here for getting the debian installer image onto a USB stick:
> http://blogs.koolwal.net/2009/02/25/installing-linux-on-usb-part-7-install-debian-linux-from-usb-drive/

[KSB] If Michael can boot Debian from a flash drive, why not just use
debootstrap (e.g., see
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/426)?

Regards
-- Bhaskar

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