Hi,

It's all the same in ubuntu and debian. Yeah, they tell you in the install manuals that it is possible to install ubuntu / debian from an USB memory stick, but it's told quite fuzzy, like: install the installer files on your stick and enter the following commands. But.... ehhh which files, and where can i get them? Everytime it takes me half an hour to find that out. So, just for me to remember (and maybe a bit for you) here's the... this one is all i need manual.

 P.s. I'm having Ubuntu Dapper and Debian etch on my stick right now.

I'm using an i386 version of Linux, so please change i386 to amd64 if you want an 64 bits version. I'm also using my stick for other stuff, so i'll use the 'flexible way'. And to make it worse for you, i only have Linux computers at hand, so if you want to prepare a memory stick with the MS Windows system, sorry you'll need another manual. If you follow these directions, you'll end with an network installer that installs directly from the internet. If you don't have internet (or a slow connection) you're better off with the installation cd's.

You can corrupt your usb stick and even your harddisk if do not have any idea what you are doing, you've been warned! 

General

• Insert you USB memory stick and try to find out which device it is in Linux. One way is to open an terminal and type:
  dmesg
  you should see some lines like:
  usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB Flash Disk    Rev: 0.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  SCSI device sda: 1024000 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB)
  sda: Write Protect is off
  sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
  sda: assuming drive cache: write through
  SCSI device sda: 1024000 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB)
  sda: Write Protect is off
  sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
  sda: assuming drive cache: write through
  sda: sda1
  This tells you the stick is probably found on /dev/sda and there is one 'partition' on it that you can reach through the devicename /dev/sda1. If you do not know what this exactely means. Browse some other Linux manuals, but write these down and remember that /dev/sda is not the same as /dev/sda1. And if you find sdb or sdc instead of sda. That could be allright. You should be able to use your stick with linux. If you cannot, you need to format it with:
  mkdosfs /dev/sda1
• Just to be sure the stick is bootable, enter the following command
  install-mbr /dev/sda (from the mbr package)
• Install a boot-manager with the following command
  syslinux /dev/sda1
• Mount you usb stick

Ubuntu Dapper

• Create a file named syslinux.cfg in the root folder of your usb stick with the following content:
  DEFAULT vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=12000 root=/dev/rd/0 rw
• Download vmlinuz from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/
  and put it in the root folder of your usb stick
• Download initrd from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/  and put it in the same root folder. These are files from differtent folders, but that seems to work best for me.
• You're done. Just boot your computer from your usb stick. Sometimes you've got to boot from USB-FLOPPY, sometimes from USB-ZIP or USB-HDD. But sometimes it's called REMOVABLE DRIVE

Debian Etch

• Create a file named syslinux.cfg in the root folder of your usb stick with the following content:
  DEFAULT vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=12000 root=/dev/rd/0 rw devfs=mount,dall
• Download vmlinuz from ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/2.6/ and put it in the root folder of your usb stick
• Download initrd from ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/2.6/  and put it in the same root folder. These are files from differtent folders, but that seems to work best for me.
• You're done. Just boot your computer from your usb stick. Sometimes you've got to boot from USB-FLOPPY, sometimes from USB-ZIP or USB-HDD. But sometimes it's called REMOVABLE DRIVE

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