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-
- <sect1 condition="bootable-usb" id="boot-usb-files">
- <title>Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting</title>
-
-<para>
-
-There are two installation methods possible when booting from USB stick.
-The first is to install completely from the network. The second is to
-also copy a CD image onto the USB stick and use that as a source for
-packages, possibly in combination with a mirror. This second method is
-the more common.
-
-</para><para>
-
-For the first installation method you'll need to download an installer
-image from the <filename>netboot</filename> directory (at the location
-mentioned in <xref linkend="where-files"/>) and use the
-<quote>flexible way</quote> explained below to copy the files to the USB
-stick.
-
-</para><para>
-
-Installation images for the second installation method can be found in
-the <filename>hd-media</filename> directory and either the <quote>easy
-way</quote> or the <quote>flexible way</quote> can be used to copy the
-image to the USB stick. For this installation method you will also need
-to download a CD image. The installation image and the CD image must be
-based on the same release of &d-i;. If they do not match you are likely
-to get errors<footnote>
-
-<para>
-The error message that is most likely to be displayed is that no kernel
-modules can be found. This means that the version of the kernel module
-udebs included on the CD image is different from the version of the
-running kernel.
-</para>
-
-</footnote> during the installation.
-
-</para><para>
-
-To prepare the USB stick, you will need a system where GNU/Linux is
-already running and where USB is supported. With current GNU/Linux systems
-the USB stick should be automatically recognized when you insert it. If
-it is not you should check that the usb-storage kernel module is loaded.
-When the USB stick is inserted, it will be mapped to a device named
-<filename>/dev/sdX</filename>, where the <quote>X</quote> is a letter
-in the range a-z. You should be able to see to which device the USB
-stick was mapped by running the command <command>dmesg</command> after
-inserting it. To write to your stick, you may have to turn off its write
-protection switch.
-
-</para>
-<warning><para>
-
-The procedures described in this section will destroy anything already
-on the device! Make very sure that you use the correct device name for
-your USB stick. If you use the wrong device the result could be that all
-information on for example a hard disk could be lost.
-
-</para></warning>
-<para>
-
-Note that the USB stick should be at least 256 MB in size (smaller
-setups are possible if you follow <xref linkend="usb-copy-flexible"/>).
-
-</para>
-
- <sect2 id="usb-copy-easy">
- <title>Copying the files &mdash; the easy way</title>
-<para>
-
-There is an all-in-one file <filename>hd-media/boot.img.gz</filename>
-which contains all the installer files (including the kernel)
-<phrase arch="x86">as well as <classname>syslinux</classname> and its
-configuration file.</phrase>
-<phrase arch="powerpc">as well as <classname>yaboot</classname> and its
-configuration file.</phrase>
-
-</para><para>
-
-Note that, although convenient, this method does have one major
-disadvantage: the logical size of the device will be limited to 256 MB,
-even if the capacity of the USB stick is larger. You will need to
-repartition the USB stick and create new file systems to get its full
-capacity back if you ever want to use it for some different purpose.
-A second disadvantage is that you cannot copy a full CD image onto
-the USB stick, but only the smaller businesscard or netinst CD images.
-
-</para><para arch="x86">
-
-To use this image simply extract it directly to your USB stick:
-
-<informalexample><screen>
-# zcat boot.img.gz &gt; /dev/<replaceable>sdX</replaceable>
-</screen></informalexample>
-
-</para><para arch="powerpc">
-
-Create a partition of type "Apple_Bootstrap" on your USB stick using
-<command>mac-fdisk</command>'s <userinput>C</userinput> command and
-extract the image directly to that:
-
-<informalexample><screen>
-# zcat boot.img.gz &gt; /dev/<replaceable>sdX2</replaceable>
-</screen></informalexample>
-
-</para><para>
-
-After that, mount the USB memory stick
-<phrase arch="x86">(<userinput>mount
-/dev/<replaceable>sdX</replaceable> /mnt</userinput>),</phrase>
-<phrase arch="powerpc">(<userinput>mount
-/dev/<replaceable>sdX2</replaceable> /mnt</userinput>),</phrase>
-which will now have
-<phrase arch="x86">a FAT filesystem</phrase>
-<phrase arch="powerpc">an HFS filesystem</phrase>
-on it, and copy a &debian; netinst or businesscard ISO image to it.
-Unmount the stick (<userinput>umount /mnt</userinput>) and you are done.
-
-</para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="usb-copy-flexible">
- <title>Copying the files &mdash; the flexible way</title>
-<para>
-
-If you like more flexibility or just want to know what's going on, you
-should use the following method to put the files on your stick. One
-advantage of using this method is that &mdash; if the capacity of your
-USB stick is large enough &mdash; you have the option of copying a
-full CD ISO image to it.
-
-</para>
-
-&usb-setup-x86.xml;
-&usb-setup-powerpc.xml;
-
- </sect2>
-
- <!-- TODO: doesn't this section belong later? -->
- <sect2 arch="x86">
- <title>Booting the USB stick</title>
-<warning><para>
-
-If your system refuses to boot from the memory stick, the stick may
-contain an invalid master boot record (MBR). To fix this, use the
-<command>install-mbr</command> command from the package
-<classname>mbr</classname>:
-
-<informalexample><screen>
-# install-mbr /dev/<replaceable>sdX</replaceable>
-</screen></informalexample>
-
-</para></warning>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>