Debian – Startup Disk Creator tool for Debian

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I was trying to create a USB bootable in Debian to install my new system. I couldn't find any easy to use tool in Debian. I tried downloading the hybrid ISO image from the Debian site and copied it to the USB using the dd command as said in Debian site, but it didn't boot.

Next, I used the Startup Disk Creator tool in Ubuntu and it worked like a charm. Is there any similar tool in Debian? I know that there is Unetbootin, but it's difficult to install.

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For Debian Stretch (9.x) you can use gnome-multi-writer. The interface is a bit confusing (you need to click the [x] button on the left to select ISO) but in the end it does the trick.

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Try this:

Remove the existing entry for your CDROM disc from /etc/apt/sources.list
Mount your flash drive somewhere.

apt-cdrom add -d=/mount/point/of/the/flash/drive

If this doesn't work for the flash drive, try dd-ing the .iso file back from the flash drive, loop-mount it (mount -o loop,ro /path/to/the/file.iso /mount/point) and try using apt-cdrom again.

Yet another possible option, if you're about to use this on multiple computers on a LAN, is to use a toop like reprepro to create a Debian repository on a dedicated server, feed it all the packages from your installation media and serve the resulting repository using a web server.

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