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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Debian squeeze live images

Official debian.org site download does not advertise or highlight the live images of debian live CD

They can be downloaded from

http://live.debian.net/




For e.g, if I wanted to try amd64 version of debian live, I can download from, iso hybrid folder under amd64. The advantage of iso-hybrid image is the downloaded iso can be written to a DVD or a pendrive!!

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/

Let us say I download gnome version of live cd

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso

I can write the iso image to a DVD or via USB

For making usb bootable, need to use dd command as root. Say my pendrive is mounted in /dev/sdd1, first I need to unmount using


sudo umount /dev/sdd1

and can write the hybrid bootable iso image using the following command

sudo dd if=debian-live-6.0.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4M


Thought this info might help someone who wants to try live image of debian

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