Install Debian With Usb
The simplest way to create a bootable USB stick for Debian installation is to use command dd to copy an ISO image to an empty USB stick. First, connect an empty USB stick to a working Linux box, and see which device represents the stick: $ sudo fdisk -l. Creation pcut ct 1200 driver.
Install Debian Usb Persistent
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 2 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1946 cylinders, total 31266816 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xb745c02d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 5 15633392 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) So, on my computer, /dev/sdb is the USB stick. Whatever is on it will be deleted and overwritten in this procedure, so make sure that I use a stick with large enough disk capacity specifically for this purpose. When I use netinst installer, about 300 MB would be enough. When the access to the network is not guaranteed during the installation (e.g., the network adapter is not properly recognized by the Debian Installer), it is desired to at least use the full CD/DVD media, which would take about 4 GB (just the first medium should be enough for bare minimal installation, after which more full configuration can be resumed). Download an ISO image for the Debian installer: $ wget Then copy the ISO image to the USB stick: $ sudo dd if=debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M $ sudo sync. Richard — I think you cannot really do that with the way the install media is created. What’s happening is that the ISO image is an image of partition itself, and that includes the partition size.
Debian Usb Install Image
It’s not like files are copied individually after a partition is created, etc. The whole process is more like burning a read-only CD image onto a blank disk. If you wish to add files, you would need to add them before you create an ISO image. There are ways to do that, but that’s not the goal of this post.