[Debian-eeepc-devel] Squeeze Net-Install Fails [SOLVED]

[Kent Frazier]

Thanks. I downloaded and installed the ISO hybrid and it worked. I installed
the desktop environment by mistake, as I didn't want GNOME, but the install
went fine.


On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ben Armstrong
<synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>wrote:

> On 09/02/2011 01:54 PM, Kent Frazier wrote:
> > I used Unetbootin for windows to create the bootable USB. It gave the
> > option do download and install the stable net-install iso which I did.
> > I'm afraid I don't have the URL to that image.  I'll try downloading the
> > image myself and see what happens.
>
> Please do not use Unetbootin. It's extraordinarily easy to shoot
> yourself in the foot with it, and the processing it does to turn ISO
> images into bootable USB images is unnecessary as well, since Debian now
> makes 'ISO hybrid' images that can be directly imaged to your USB key:
>
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid
>
> I'm disappointed to find the install guide has no pointers as to how to
> do this on Windows. I've helped a few Windows users struggle through
> writing USB images using various tools, and it seems there were problems
> with each of them. This one looks promising, but not being a Windows
> user myself, I can't say whether it's any better than the others or not:
>
> https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer
>
> Ben
>
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