Unfortunately that joy was short lived, as the system showed. Booted the drive on one of my machines, and was met with GRUB (yay!). I used an override in the expert section (-icds) to ignore the disk size and copied over the VM to a flash drive. I then tried Clonezilla device-device cloning, which complained about the target disk being too small because Clonezilla is too effn' stupid to see that the last 9 GB of space on the source disk isn't being used. Google-fu and yeah GParted doesn't copy GRUB so no go. I tried using GParted to copy the partitions and was met with a little blinking '_' when I tried to boot. So I now have a 6 GB system that I want to put onto an 8 GB flash drive. Even moved the swap partition so that the last ~9 GB of space is totally unallocated. So I then stripped it down (removed lots of packages I didn't need) and used GParted Live to resize and reduce the partitions such that the system only uses about 6 GB total. I need to make several copies of this VM onto 8 GB bootable flash drives.
The Debian 10 ISO image ( debian-live-10.0.0-amd64-gnome.iso in my case) is downloaded in the ~/Downloads directory.I have a virtual machine on my Windows 10 desktop (VMWare WS) running Debian 9 which needed 12 GB to install, I gave it 15 GB for safe measure. You can also use the dd command line tool to create a bootable USB thumb drive of Debian 10 on Linux. Making a Debian 10 Bootable USB Thumb Drive from the Command Line:
Take a look at this article to learn how to install and use Etcher on Linux. You can also use Etcher to make a Debian 10 bootable USB thumb drive. Once it’s done, you should be able to install Debian 10 using this USB thumb drive. GNOME Disks is copying all the required files to the USB thumb drive.
Now, type in the password of your login user and click on Authenticate. Now, select the Debian 10 ISO image and click on Open. Now, click on the marked section of the screenshot below. If you’re using GNOME desktop environment, just insert the USB thumb drive and start GNOME Disks. For example, Etcher, UNetbootin, GNOME Disks etc. Knoppix can also be booted from a CD/DVD drive if you’re still using those. This gives you access to a Live Linux Filesystem on your Pendrive.
It is based on Debian, like Ubuntu, but it is designed especially to bootable from live USB which makes it ideal as a portable Linux distro. On Linux, you can use many GUI tools to make a Debian 10 bootable USB thumb drive. Knoppix is a well established and stable Linux distro. Making Debian 10 Bootable USB Thumb Drive on Linux: Now, you should be able to install Debian 10 using this USB thumb drive. Rufus is copying all the required files to your USB thumb drive. Note that you wont be able to shrink your root partition while using it you can boot with a live usb system and use gparted from there.
If you have any important files on your USB thumb drive, move it somewhere safe and click on OK. gparted is a software that will let you shrink ext2, ext3 and reiserfs partitions. Now, select Write in ISO Image mode (Recommended) and click on OK. Now, select the Debian 10 ISO image that you just downloaded and click on Open. Now, insert an USB thumb drive on your computer and run Rufus. Go to the official website of Rufus and click on Rufus portable link as marked in the screenshot below. You can download Rufus from the official website of Rufus. I will use Rufus in this section for the demonstration. The common ones are Rufus, Balena Etcher, Unetbootin etc. There are many programs that you can use on Windows to make a bootable USB thumb drive of Debian 10. Making Debian 10 Bootable USB Thumb Drive on Windows: Once the download is complete, you are ready to make a Debian 10 bootable USB thumb drive. Once you click on the ISO image that you like, the download should start. You should find Debian Live 10 ISO images for GNOME, Cinnamon, KDE, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, Xfce desktop environments. Downloading Debian 10 Buster ISO Image:įirst, visit the CD image website of Debian 10 at from your favorite browser. In this article, I am going to show you how to create a Debian 10 Buster (the new kid in town) bootable USB thumb drive on Windows and Linux. There are many ways to make a bootable USB thumb drive on Windows and Linux. It is cheaper as you can reuse the USB thumb drive over and over again. The USB thumb drive has replaced bootable CDs and DVDs. In this age, very few people use CDs and DVDs to install a new operating system on computers.