change usb-stick to sda (4 replies)

Hello everybody,

I have a goflex_home system. Now I am trying to produce a bootable usb-stick with debian following Jeff's tutorial.
I experienced two problems:
1 fdisk seems to fail in writing the fdisk changes finally so the usb-stick ends up with no valid partitions
The script seemed to work during installation, but finally the usb-stick didn't boot and contained no data.
2 I tried to do the fdisk from a debian installation on vmware player. This worked well, but the shellscript needs
the usb-stick to be sda - on my vmware image, sda is the OS while the stick is sdb. There is no editable part
within the installation script to change default to sdb. This make it impossible to install debian from a linux system
which is sda itself. Also, the HD needs to be removed on the goflex_home to make the usb-stick sda.
Is there a workaround for this problem or is there an alternative way to produce a bootable usb-stick with
debian for goflex_home?

Being a linux newbie I mostly need to follow tutorials to get things done properly.
The installation of squeeze server on the original OS failed due to lack of memory - which was the main motivation for
using an alternative OS. Another point is that the primary installation of the goflex_home demands registration of
email, HD-ID and passwords on a foreign server system which especially *now* doesn't seem politically correct knowing
what whistleblowers have been publishing, lately.

Thank you very much for your help!
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