Easy Steps to Create a Bootable Debian Installer on a USB Stick.
Published on Feb 16, 2013 05:25 by KE Programmer
This instructions work on Ubuntu Linux. They should be trivial to implement on other Linux distributions:
- Acquire a hybrid Debian installation disk image. You can use a hybrid to both run Debian off the installation medium, or install it on the machine. Download it and save it in your machine. See this page for info on accessing Debian ISOs: http://www.debian.org/CD/
- Insert your USB stick into the machine. Ensure that you backup all data since it will be overwritten
- Execute the following command in the terminal:
$ sudo fdisk -l - Note the device file for the USB stick. If you cannot understand
the output, perform the above command both before and after
inserting the USB stick and note the appended file in the
output. On my system it is
$ /dev/sdb1 - Execute the following command:
$ cat /path/to/debian-iso.iso > /dev/sXY
I had to execute $su first in order to run the command as the
root. Remember to do $exit immediately after the command
terminates. Replace /path/to/debian-iso.iso above with the actual path
to the ISO you downloaded. My /dev/sXY was /dev/sdb.
Once you are done, you can restart your machine and set it to boot from the USB stick.
[Previously published here]