[Voyage-linux] CD iso install or CF image?

[Andrew Niemantsverdriet]

Hi,

That actually sounds like a great idea for just getting things working.

Although I still have not given up on getting a "normal" install I am
going to need to get some new hardware for a CF writer and install
Debian on a system.


On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 16:16, Steve W wrote:
> Instead of doing a CD install, why not just do an image file with dd and 
> have that available for download.
> 
> Assuming /dev/sda is your CF.
> 
> To create the image you do:
> dd if=/dev/sda of=voyage-x-x.img bs=512k
> 
> To put the image file onto a new CF just do:
> dd of=/dev/sda if=voyage-x-x.img bs=512k
> 
> No need to format it first or any of that stuff.
> 
> If you want to revise what is on the CF you can do so later by just 
> mounting /dev/sda1 and so on.
> 
> If you do this though I would leave both the regular install and the 
> image file as options instead of dropping the regular install.
> 
> You can zip the image files to make them less of a disk space hog. I 
> found zip worked better for me than tar.gz for an image file. Maybe its 
> just me :)
> 
> Steve...
> 
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