On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 14:12:10 +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I tried without success to boot the Debian installer from an 8-Gbyte > USB flash memory stick. I tried two different procedures for creation > of a bootable ROM, but neither worked; the approaches are detailed in: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en
The method described in section 4.3.1 is generally successful. What was the exact command you used to put the image on the USB stick? > (3) During installation, the only USB port which appears to be active > is the port feeding the DVD drive. Aside from the minor inconvenience > of being unable to use a full-size external USB keyboard for the > installation, I am unable to provide "missing firmware" (namely, > "rt1_nic/rt18105e-1fw") on removable media during the installation. Enabling 'Legacy USB' in the bios (if it is there) may be necessary. -- 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/20120204174219.GE2867@desktop