Um, if I had one, I would. Thats the whole purpose of this exercise--to get me a Linux machine, so I just thought I'd do it the easy way.
Jigdo ran all night and I got nothing. In fact, it's still trying. On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:34:05 -0800, you wrote: > >On Dec 29, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Steve Matzura <s...@noisynotes.com> wrote: > >>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:18:15PM -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >>>> Is there a way to place the contents of all the Debian installation >>>> ISO's on a single USB drive? For example, after creating the boot >>>> drive from the first ISO image, can the files from the second and >>>> third images be simply copied onto the USB drive, creating one >>>> complete three-disk installation set on a single medium? >>> >>> You can do this most easily by using jigdo to get the single density Blu-Ray >>> .iso - about 14GB - and use dd to write this directly to a USB stick. >>> >>> This gives you a 14GB .iso which includes all the Debian packages in one >>> place that is directly bootable and will fit on a 16GB USB stick :) >>> >>> I did this at the release of Debian 8 to prove that it was feasible. >>> >>> This does assume that you have good 'net access to build the iso in >>> the first place since tha packages will need to be downloaded from a >>> network. >>> >>> All the very best, >>> >>> AndyC >>> >> Thanks, Andy. I downloaded the Windows Jigdo downloader and found a >> mirror in my state, but I keep getting the following when trying to >> download the Blu-ray image after several connect attempts: >> result too large > >Maybe Windows has problems with huge files? I dont know if it does, but >maybe > >Try doing it on a Linux machine. > >Rick