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Operating Systems Linux Debian Installing Debian Post 302449855 by Ultrix on Tuesday 31st of August 2010 08:00:17 PM

08-31-2010

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Installing Debian

I'm trying to install Debian to a partition on my hard drive. I have my computer booted into Knoppix from a CD and I'm using it to download the necessary files to create an install disk that I can boot from (on a USB memory stick).

Here is what someone on another forum told me to do:

Quote:

Download boot.img.gz from here: ftp.osuosl.org :: Oregon State University Open Source Lab

Run this command on your empty FAT32 USB:
zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX <---- X not sdaX

Mount it:
mount /dev/sdX /mnt/

Download Netinst from here, note a good KDE torrent client is Ktorrent, or Azeurus, or look on another site for a non-torrent download:
Debian -- Network install from a minimal CD

Copy files (non-binary copy, so it can't mess up!):
cp netinstimagename.iso /mnt

And BAM! Restart and see if that works. This bypasses the MBR crap and uses a bootloader to start the kernel (installation hook)

Are you really supposed to do a non-binary copy? The manual simply said

Quote:

After that, mount the USB memory stick (mount /dev/sdx /mnt), which will now have a FAT filesystem on it, and copy a Debian netinst or businesscard image ISO to it.

It said nothing about whether to use a binary copy or cp.

So far, I have tried doing this to one USB stick and it got corrupted somehow so that when I went to the boot menu, the BIOS didn't detect it. I have a different drive, and I have deleted all partitions on it, then used mkfs to create a filesystem.

So here are my questions:
1. Should I use dd or cp?
2. If I use dd, wouldn't that overwrite what was in boot.img?
3. If I use cp, won't the ISO still be compressed and unusable?

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installboot(1M) 														   installboot(1M)

NAME

       installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition

SYNOPSIS

       installboot bootblk raw-disk-device

       The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.

       The  ufs  boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
       found using the -i option of uname(1).

       The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the  architecture.  users should use installgrub(1M) instead.

       bootblk	       The name of the bootblock code.

       raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is  read-
		       able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.

       Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block

       To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:

	      example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk 
		   /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0

       /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs

	   directory where ufs boot objects reside.

       /platform/platform-name/ufsboot

	   second level program to boot from a disk or CD

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

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WARNINGS

       The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.

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