Another thing I heard about the installer, and I'm not sure which one, because it didn't happen to me when I used the squeeze installer (netinst). I was listening to DistroWatch Weekly, and one of the reporters tried to build a squeeze box, and he mentioned in his review that the entry for the CD was left in sources.list. I think he was using the dvd to build it, as memory serves. I always use the netinst image, and I don't recall seeing this problem since etch.
But someone may want to check into it. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Thomas H. George <li...@tomgeorge.info>wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:18:48PM +0000, Steven Ayre wrote: > > > Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? > > > > Boot from the installer in recovery mode and manually install grub to > > the MBR of the USB stick. > > > > -Steve > > Thanks, the recovery mode does list the available drives and the option > to select the drive in which to install the MBR. > > Others responding to this thread claim the installer does this as well. > That was definitely not the case with the installer I used, > debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso, downloaded February 28th. When I answered > no there were no further questions and the installation was completed. > Perhaps that is true only of this release. > > Tom > > > > > > On 3 March 2011 15:19, Thomas H. George <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > > > I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian > > > on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was > > > to the effect > > > > > > Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. > > > Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? > > > > > > My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick > > > and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the > > > installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. > > > > > > Since the computer was running from the installation disk I could have > > > modified the bios boot sequence for hard drives to move the usb stick > to > > > the top of the list but would the installation program look at this > > > information? How would it chose between the first ide hard drive, the > > > first sata hard drive and the usb stick? > > > > > > Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > 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/20110303151921.ga26...@tomgeorge.info > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/aanlktimj0a48rgwqza6_xro4ddphtkm6kvtyl+hd9...@mail.gmail.com > > > > > > > -- > 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/20110304141531.ga29...@tomgeorge.info > >
