How to create a debian installer for a usb pen drive ? There are many
way.s from a
simple
sudo zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb to
unetbootin.
Last night I discovered a very nice tool from ubuntu (usb-creator) that apparently is still not in the debian archives. There is a bit of doco here if you don’t know it already.
Installing it on debian is a breeze (I used the debs from lucid) and it works pretty well. The reason I’ve tried this one is that unetbootin sometimes failed for me producing an un-usable usb key. The old school method of course works, but sometimes, late at night, I feel the need of a friendly gtk interface to help my sleep.