I'm still struggling to create a squeeze install from USB-key. At this point a netinst installation using the squeeze netinst ISO.
When I try to boot the key, I get only so far as "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." My impression this is likely to mean that my USB-key is not bootable. In fact, this raises a question. The reason my key is not bootable is because I followed the directions "4.3. Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting" from http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en very literally. These are directions for installing lenny, but nothing I've seen makes them irrelevant to a squeeze installation except for the choice of installer files. In these directions, there is no step to make /dev/sdX1 bootable, and in fact it isn't bootable. The syslinux command writes a boot sector to the partition and creates the file ldlinux.sys which contains the boot loader code. But I assume that does me no good unless the partition is bootable. I assume I could do, for example, # cfdisk /dev/sdc1 and then issue its "b" command to set the boot flag for current partition. On a hard disk, the /boot partition is made bootable, but with the key, my boot files are in the single / partition, and so I assume I should run cfdisk on /dev/sdc1 rather than /dev/sdc. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqxe4i8r....@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info
