[QnA] memo: USB memory stick booting

Links:

• http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en
• http://fourdollars.blogspot.com/2008/11/usb-stick-debian-gnulinux-50-lenny-rc1.html

Steps:

1. $ sudo umount /dev/sdX (if the USB stick has been mounted; X = a, ..., z)
2. $ sudo mkdosfs /dev/sdX
3. $ sudo su -c "zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdX"
4. $ sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/mountPoint
5. $ cp *.iso /media/mountPoint
   

Before the above steps, the capacity of my 8G USB stick was


After the above steps, it became only several MB


But I don't know what caused this.