On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:30:39PM -0500, william moss wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 02/23/2015 04:24 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I have a three-or-four year-old laptop on which I am replacingg the hard > > drive. It > > seems to be old enough not to have proper virtualisatoin hardware. It > > currently > > dual-boots Debian testing, and, once in a blue moon, Windows XP. > > > > (So far the main problems I have had is to copy Windows' three partitions > > -- the one > > that runs, the so-called restore partition, and the EFI partition. I'm > > hoping that > > grub will find a way to make the running partition bootable. I managed to > > get > > clonezilla to copy the three partitions (even though the EFI partition > > seemed to > > violate what I know of the EFI specs in that it didn't have a FAT 12, 16, > > or 32 > > filesystem. Maybe grub will be able to figure out how to boot what needs > > booting.)
Oh yes, Despite the EFI partition it is still a BIOS machine. Go figure. > > > > But maybe this is the ideal time to try the iso on the new drive and try it > > on real > > hardware instead of a virtual machine. If things were to go > > massively wrong, I could always put the old disk back in. > > > > Except I need instructions just how to do this. It does not have a CD or > > DVD drive, > > but will boot from USB stick. > > > > How do I go about putting the installation .iso onto a USB stick so it will > > boot? > > Debian should be good enough to accomplish that, riight? > > > > Or is there another installation method it might be more useful to test? > > > > -- hendrik > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > If you insist, there is an application to do this in Linux (one for > windows also, do not remember the name): > unetbootin > > or > > dd if=Fully-qualified-path-to-the-image of=Raw-USB-Device > > for example > dd if=/home/daffyduck/download/devian.iso of=/dev/sde > > use blkid to get the USB device. Ah! That easy! I just need to copy the iso file as is to the USB stick and that's enough to make it boot? There's nothing special about it being a USB stick or a CD? marvellous! -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
