Editing Mika/Notes/Computer Stuff/Debian Installation/X220 (section)

=Step 1: Get image files=

Since I have network access, I was going to put image files on a usb stick via http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#verysmall . However, this page leads to individual files and I wanted to download them all at once. According to Lenovo website, I have amd64 and here's [http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.3/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso the link] for a complete package. If you want to collect different parts separately, try [http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/20110106%2bsqueeze3%2bb1/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz the link] but when I did it (note that you need to dd if=boot.img of=/dev/sdb or whereever the usb is in order to convert and copy the img files onto the usb stick), installation failed.

Other pages of interest at this point:

* http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist

I put the file onto my USB stick.I kept putting wrong image files on the usb but I unmounted the usb stick and without removing the stick from the laptop, I did dd if=(path/filename) of=/dev/sdb . '''dd didn't work this time in Ubuntu, so we used a graphical interface USB Live USB creator (usb-creator-gtk).''' 

'''The one I got above was old, so everything I got was old. I changed in the source.list squeeze->testing.''' Then, apt-get dist-upgrade

If I just type in mount, it shows where things are mounted.