I didn't get that error.

so please could you use dd and share this great working Pendrive ?? please

Might be an idea / worth a try.

I am able to send big files.
I would need to re-create the stick, cause as i don't needed it i think i deleted its content again. I'm not sure if i am in the mood for it tomorrow.
I need your email-address via pm (or just a fake-one-time-address).
I would send it within this week.

I can see no much use for squeeze (cause if its lenny you simply install it and upgrade...).

Thats actually how I got my squeeze install going
I booted netboocd and chose Squeeze CLI (No X, desktop, etc)
for some reason it installed lenny CLI

so, I commented out the lenny repos, added squeeze repos
and then did aptitude safe-upgrade
rebooted and did upgrade again

thats how nflux debian squeeze was born

Another good choice, even a better one (not only that i don't need to do anything... it is already tested).

Oh...well... a miracle.
A good one for all of you (the ones who say it does work and the one who say it doesn't).

I recreated the stick, main trouble was finding the netinst.iso, again craigevil's link and now take that:
The installation went through within the blink of an eye (less than 5 minutes), no tasksel no nothing. I think: "huh?".
I reboot and what do i see:
Crunchbang.

If someone is able to clear that up i am all ears. NO, i didn't put a Crunchbang-iso on the stick.
I once tried to add a Crunchbang-iso, saved on the hard-disk, to the grub.cfg menu. Therefor there are commented entries in grub.cfg and in 40-default.
At that time i had a iso under /boot, but its long deleted from there.

So, anyone might know what happened?
I think this is outstanding funny.

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@freenchnoob: I got your email. As you can see i am working on it. The stick seems to be ready, and as you ain't got no crunchbang it should work in your case.
I will run some further tests and email it to you. Once you got my mail you will need to download it within a week. Take care not to delete it as spam (i got a different name). As i am paranoid i will sent it from two email-accounts and i wil send a dd-version and a tar version. If the dd-version doesn't work you untar the other version and do a simple "cp". I think you will still need to run 'install-mbr /dev/sdXXX.
First of all i need to find out where the crunchbang is coming from, remove it and try if the netinst-iso works too. If you say that looks to confused for you let me know.

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If this post was too confused for anyone to find out what i am talking about i have to re-write it. I *am* confused.

Just that no one will tell me i got crunchbang on the stick:
locate doesnt find it but in users Distribution-folder:
grub.cfg and 40-default:

Crazy...
I'm now having big problems with nflux squeeze too...

anyway; j1alu
what about live-magic?
create a non-X (or full desktop) squeeze img/iso
and then install like that?
he could use the remastersys-installer to install it

on a lenny install it might still be

being that "standard" is a non-X build, it may be able to do from livecd/usb on a small partition?

What shall i say. I looks like you have been right.
While the crunchbang-iso is getting found easily, wherever it might be stored, the debian-netinst-iso ain't getting found. The iso is sane (i did installations in Vbox with it).

The long story:
I ran the usb-stick again: same result: crunchbang-installation.
I deleted crunchbang-iso on /dev/sda5 and an the usb-stick again: same result: crunchbang iso.
I mounted all my partitions and deleted all crunchbang-iso's.
I ran the installer from iso again: no valid iso found.
I went for a long-search, i used expert mode, whatever. No result.
The long story ends here.

I should have finished the installation before i posted. Sorry.
I will try a few things now, but ain't got much hope.

Like said: Sorry.
I think you can understand that if i get past paritioning i assume that the installation will work like usual.

@Linus:
I think you got some good ideas there. I also think you are more experience with such stuff (usb and that) than i am
At the moment i am too confused to think (i think if you create a Debian-live with lh you need to tell it to create an usb-image... not sure yet... but it would be a good choice).
In each case i would first of all install Lenny/stable, then upgrade (testing has got problems now and then, stable doesn't, so on that side one would be safe).

Lets hear what frenchnoob wants to do next.

PS:
if you add
you should get an installer. With CD's it works like a charme...

yea
I agree

alos, I just create the default iso image. rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
and isolinux folder to syslinux folder
I think debian is now using iso-hybrid where you can dd it to usb?

and yeah, install both stable and squeeze
if frenchnoob you dont wanna use deb net install
just use netbootcd off usb
http://netbootcd.tuxfamily.org/

again, just change isolinux to syslinux, isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg

Keep in mind that my stick easily recognized the crunchbang-iso, wherever it might be stored.
I did all kind of experiments: no luck.
I used a business-card-iso on the stick, on the partition.
I stored a stock installation-iso (xfce-lxde) on the hard-disk.
I ran it several times, expert mode, long searches and what not.

Finally i used the Debian-Lenny boot.img and net-installer: again: no luck.

After the stick mounts and i hit on <install> in the curses interface i get an error-message
which passes by within a second:
That might or might not be related, but still wouldn't explain why the crunchbang iso is getting recognized, while a "real" debian-iso is not.

I think i am done with the problem. That sucks.
Really.

That advice did work for me without any further problems:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...=53256#p307103
All other how-tos, docus, tips&tricks didn't (for what reason ever).

In short:
use unetbootin
choose -> Distribution
then ->Debian and the branch you want
and hit ok
Once thats finished copy a installer-iso on the stick (with the filemanager or with a simple cp) and reboot.

I did an installation using the old method (no mbr) this morning ...
Do you have an other usb drive to try this?