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Debian Linux Installλ︎

Debian provides ISO images which can be burned onto compact disks or USB memory sticks.

The net install image is small and quick to download, containing only the essential packages to run an operating system.

Copy the Debian Linux ISO image to a USB of 1GB size or larger

Create USB install disk from Debian ISO file

Copy the ISO image to the USB disk (not a partition)

cp debian.iso /dev/sda

Creating USB install disks with non-Debian images

Find the name of the USB stick

ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb-*

Copy the image using the name of the USB Stick

dd bs=4M if=path/to/filename.iso of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-My_flash_drive conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress
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