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| author | Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> | 2011-01-08 17:07:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> | 2011-01-08 17:07:58 +0000 |
| commit | de4bfa23c0d6d74d9c780e15333ffb7a18368cc3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b871f47e20d1137a4162979f3a718a7d8ca7abd /en/howto | |
| parent | a950b6d69cc813119c6802653657b19873c44acb (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-de4bfa23c0d6d74d9c780e15333ffb7a18368cc3.zip | |
Updated USB stick documentation to describe the much simpler, more
flexible, and likely more robust use of isohybrid images. All i386
and amd64 ISO images are now isohybrid.
Diffstat (limited to 'en/howto')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/howto/installation-howto.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/en/howto/installation-howto.xml b/en/howto/installation-howto.xml index f88e4b27d..63ced6508 100644 --- a/en/howto/installation-howto.xml +++ b/en/howto/installation-howto.xml @@ -135,7 +135,15 @@ It's also possible to install from removable USB storage devices. For example a USB keychain can make a handy &debian; install medium that you can take with you anywhere. -</para><para> +</para><para condition="isohybrid-supported"> + +The easiest way to prepare your USB memory stick is to download any +Debian CD or DVD image that will fit on it, and write the CD image directly +to the memory stick. Of course this will destroy anything already +on the memory stick. This works because Debian CD images are +"isohybrid" images that can boot both from CD and from USB drives. + +</para><para condition="isohybrid-unsupported"> The easiest way to prepare your USB memory stick is to download <filename>hd-media/boot.img.gz</filename>, and use gunzip to extract the 256 MB |