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David Wright writes:

> On Sun 24 Feb 2019 at 12:26:25 (-0800), David Christensen wrote:
> >
> > If that does not work, make your own Debian console-only live USB
> > stick -- download the latest Debian Stable installer, burn it to
> > media, connect a 16+ GB USB 3.0 flash drive, wipe the flash drive,
> > power down, completely disconnect all HDD's and SSD's (power and data
> > cables for internal drives, USB, Firewire, etc., cables for external
> > drives), leave the USB flash drive connected, boot the install media,
> > start the Debian installer, install to the USB flash drive, at the
> > "Choose software to install" menu select "SSH server" and "standard
> > system utilities" only, finish the install, reboot into the USB flash
> > drive, remove the install media, SSH in from another machine, connect
> > your USB dock and disk, and trouble-shoot.
>
> Surely there's a recipe for creating a live USB stick that doesn't
> involve tearing out the guts of your PC. What does one do with a laptop?

Multiple:

 * Do as described above but run the installer in a virtual machine
   and use passthrough for the USB stick (not tested, in case it will
   not work due to the passthrough one can think about creating an
   image inside the VM and writing it to the USB stick outside).

 * Use Debian live-build (although I never got that to work yet)

 * Remastersys (seems to be "Linux Respin" now... I am still using
   an old customized version of mine but newer versions are likely
   to work just as well or better?): This tool creates a live CD image
   out of a running linux system which can be a physical machine, a
   docker (or other but not tested yet :) ) container or a virtual
   machine.

> I realise that leaving things connected probably involves one in a
> full round of backup complete with off-site storage. :)

Backup is never wrong, but I think other approaches to running the installer
on the hardware itself have the additional advantage that the rest of the
system (e-mail, webbrowsing, whatever background services one might run)
need not go offline for the duration of the installation :)

HTH
Linux-Fan

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Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-16 00:30 +0100
  Re: Can't scan new disk deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-02-16 01:10 +0100
    Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-16 02:50 +0100
  Re: Can't scan new disk songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-02-16 01:30 +0100
    Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-16 02:50 +0100
  Re: Can't scan new disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-16 04:20 +0100
    Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-16 21:40 +0100
      Re: Can't scan new disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-16 23:20 +0100
        Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-18 04:20 +0100
          Re: Can't scan new disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-19 00:40 +0100
        Re: Can't scan new disk Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-02-19 19:00 +0100
          Re: Can't scan new disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-20 03:50 +0100
            Re: Can't scan new disk Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-02-20 04:30 +0100
              Re: Can't scan new disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-20 06:30 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-02-20 14:20 +0100
  Re: Can't scan new disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-16 09:50 +0100
    Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-16 21:30 +0100
      Re: Can't scan new disk "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-18 06:10 +0100
        Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-20 07:20 +0100
          Re: Can't scan new disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-20 10:30 +0100
            Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-20 10:30 +0100
              Re: Can't scan new disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-20 11:30 +0100
          Re: Can't scan new disk "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-20 10:30 +0100
            Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-20 10:50 +0100
              Re: Can't scan new disk "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-02-20 11:30 +0100
            Re: Can't scan new disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-20 13:20 +0100
            Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-24 15:50 +0100
              Re: Can't scan new disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-24 21:30 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-24 23:10 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-02-25 01:10 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2019-02-25 12:40 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-25 15:20 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-25 15:50 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2019-02-25 16:00 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-25 16:30 +0100
                Re: Can't scan new disk <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-26 09:30 +0100
              Re: Can't scan new disk David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-24 23:10 +0100
              Re: Can't scan new disk "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-25 20:20 +0100
          Re: Can't scan new disk Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2019-02-20 18:40 +0100

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