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It should see it, I know Debian supports installing onto USB sticks so a USB drive shouldn’t be a problem. The Debian system will probably want to put a GRUB boot loader on the root of your C: drive; it should accommodate dual-booting your original windows partition.
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I tried to make a full Debian installation on USB.
I created a live Debian on USB1 with Rufus. Download lagu hatsune miku electric love. no problem. I opened the live session, inserted USB2 and followed all installation steps (graphical) incl. putting GRUB all on that USB2.
At the end I received a confirmation that the installation was complete but when I try to boot from that USB2 (full Debian) I only get the black screen with blinking cursor.
Where did I go wrong?
FYI: installation without an internet connection. Could that matter?
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The boot flag on USB2 may not be set. The Debian installer lets you set this flag but I think it does not do this by default on existing partitions.
Boot off your live CD, open a root terminal, and run
LawrenceCLawrenceCcfdisk /dev/sdX
where /dev/sdX
is your USB2 (use blkid
or lsblk
if you don't know for sure). Make the partition where /boot
lives bootable. Write the changes and see if you can boot off of it now.61.5k1212 gold badges109109 silver badges186186 bronze badges
You can create a debian live USB with persistence from a debian based operating system using
mkusb
tools (tested and work fine on debian jessie KDE)If you don't have debian installed you can use 2 USB :
The first one is your current debian Live USB
The second USB is used to create the debian persistent live USB
Boot from your live USB then plug in your second USB
Open the terminal and run the following commands:
Add the following line:
Save your file ( Ctrl + O ) then press Enter
Run the foolowing command:
Run the program .
Choose:
- 'Install (make a boot device)'
- p : persistent live
- upefi : usb-pack-efi
- choose your Usb device ( becarful if you are using 2 USB , run
fdisk -l
before pluging the second one) - check Go
You will be asked to set the percentage of the persistent partition ( e,g: 50%) then validate , it will take about 15 min .
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I encountered a similar problem (black screen with blinking cursor after install and reboot). The solution for me was to create a new bootable USB stick with YUMI. That worked. My explanation is that something must have been wrong with the first one, I'm not sure exactly what. What changed is:
- different USB stick (different brand and larger capacity)
- different program to create it (YUMI in my case, but you could try UNetbootin, too)
- it is possible I downloaded a new iso, although I cannot say for sure.
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This could be a number of problems, but one thing that should always be done before installation of a distribution is verifying the checksum of the ISO file you downloaded to make sure it is fully intact. You can find the Debian specific info on this here.
Oh and to answer your other question, if this Debian image you are using is indeed the 'full' version, no, you do not need an internet connection because as 'full' implies, everything needed is included in the ISO image.
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I am running Windows 10 and am starting to learn how to boot from USB devices.
I have a 16GB USB (USB 3.0) drive and I want to do the following:
- Make the 16GB USB drive run Debian Linux.
- Keep Windows 10 on my C: drive.
- Not partition my hard drive or set up a dual boot.
- Run the OS from my USB drive.
- Let all of my files and programs be saved to the USB (so I don't think that a live OS would be suitable). It should work as though it was a dual boot as in the way files are saved.
- Make it work on any computer it is plugged in to (assuming the BIOS is compatible).
I already know how to boot from a USB in my BIOS but I am unsure as to where to get an ISO file and how to install it to the USB.
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To create a bootable USB, you can follow the steps below:
STEP 1
Go to the website of the OS you wish to install, and find an iso image to download. In your case, since you want to run a Debian OS, here is a link to its iso options: https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
Choose an iso image from the options, and click on it. This should automatically start the image download. While file is downloading, go to second step.
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STEP 2
Get a utility program to format and create bootable USB flash drives. Some have already been suggested, so I will just link you to my favourite: https://rufus.akeo.ie/
Download the utility and go to third step.
STEP 3
By this stage, if your iso image has not yet finished downloading, then wait until it does.
Now that you have both the utility and the iso image downloaded:
- Plug in your USB drive
- Open Rufus (to write your USB)
- Select the iso image you just downloaded to write on the USB, and fill out the other options accordingly (eg. selecting your USB drive etc)
- Click on the option for starting the write process (with Rufus, it is the 'Start' button)
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Once Rufus finishes, simply reboot, booting from your USB, which should start up your Debian OS.
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we can easily make bootable Debain using rufus software from windows.
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