add file=/hd-media/preseed.cfg auto=true. Mount the USB drive: `mkdir usb mount /dev/sdb usb cd usb. Copy the image to your USB drive: zcat > /dev/sdb. This is a simple, single-partition, bootable installer image. Download the hd-media/ file from a Debian mirror. Will start up a network console automatically, so that I can SSH in and seeīut it is tested on Debian 10, and simpler as we can edit the files on the USBĭirectly rather than re-packing the ISO. My null modem adapter to arrive, let's make a Debian installer USB stick that Surely everybody has RS232 gear lying around, right?) So while I'm waiting for However, the box has no mouse/keyboard or monitorĬonnections, only a serial console, and I don't have the right cable. The result was that the usb was not bootable - in the loading screen pressing alt button - the usb does not show.I recently got a Soekris net6501 box that I wanted to configure as a The result was the expected message that usb could not be read.Ħ) ejecting the usb with: diskutil eject /dev/disk2 I also tried to us UDTO instead of UDRW.ģ) finding my usb location using diskutil list, it was /dev/disk2Ĥ) unmounting the usb: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2ĥ) dding the image: sudo dd if=debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-1.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m Any advice how can I debug why my usb did not becamse Debian bootable after those procedures.ġ)erase usb drive using disk utils and create FAT partition(i tried also exFAT and OSX Extended).Ģ) downloaded the iso and converted it to img: hdiutil convert debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-1.iso -format UDRW -o debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-1.imgĪnd renaming the result to remove the ".img" from name. Other distos have large amouts of troubleshooting this issue, but not debian. 
It also seems seems several years old and outdated.
Does not work(everything goes fine but usb does not become bootable).
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