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@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ To write the resulting v-i.img to a USB drive: sudo dd if=v-i.img of=/dev/path/to/usb/drive/device status=progress oflag=direct ~~~ +Alternatively, use bmaptool (from bmap-tools), which does the same +thing as dd but skips holes in sparse files, so it's more efficient +for disk images: + +~~~sh +bmaptool create v-i.img > v-i.bmap +sudo bmaptool copy v-i.img /dev/path/to/usb/drive/device +~~~ + Plug in the USB drive to the laptop, boot off that. Log into the installer as root (no password), and run @@ -87,3 +96,15 @@ installer as root (no password), and run Reboot laptop from its hard drive and you should have a bare bones Debian system installed. + +Virtual test envionment +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +You probably want to test with virtual machines instead of real +hardware, for convenience. + +~~~sh +apt install qemu-system +qemu-img create ~/tmp/main.img 10G +./bootvm ~/tmp/main.img 10G v-i.img +~~~ |