{"id":2353,"date":"2016-06-27T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:36:14","slug":"create-a-debian-live-usb-flashdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"Create a Debian Live USB flash drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian06.jpg\" alt=\"SanDisk Key\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian06.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian06-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>There are many sites that describe how to do this, but some techniques just didn&#8217;t work for me and many required you to do it from Linux which also doesn&#8217;t work for me. This is what worked for me on Windows 10.<\/p>\n<table class=\"zsteps\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1.<\/td>\n<td>Insert you key into your Windows PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.<\/td>\n<td>Though this may not be absolutely necessary I find it a good idea to format the USB key by right clicking in Windows Explorer and selecting format:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2356 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian02-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"Format USB Key\" width=\"166\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian02-166x300.jpg 166w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian02-83x150.jpg 83w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian02.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.<\/td>\n<td>Download the ISO image for Deblian live from the Debian website:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/CD\/live\/\">https:\/\/www.debian.org\/CD\/live\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look for the link &#8220;i386&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In our case the iso file was: <em>debian-live-8.5.0-i386-cinnamon-desktop.iso<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.<\/td>\n<td>Download Win32 Disk Imager tool from<a  href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/win32diskimager\/\">\u00a0https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/win32diskimager\/<\/a> in our case this was &#8220;Win32DiskImager-0.9.5-install.exe&#8221;. Then run it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5.<\/td>\n<td>Select the ISO image you downloaded and also ensure you select your USB key as the &#8220;Device&#8221; &#8211; don&#8217;t want to overwrite the wrong thing:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/USBDebian05.gif\" alt=\"Win32 Disk Imager\" width=\"407\" height=\"207\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6.<\/td>\n<td>Click Write to create the bootable USB key.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8.<\/td>\n<td>In Windows safely eject the key.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many sites that describe how to do this, but some techniques just didn&#8217;t work for me and many required you to do it from Linux which also doesn&#8217;t work for me. This is what worked for me on Windows 10. 1. Insert you key into your Windows PC 2. Though this may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,313],"tags":[317,318,70,315,316,314],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debian","category-open-media-vault","tag-boot","tag-debian","tag-dvd","tag-flash-drive","tag-iso","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}