

The idea of the vm was to create the windows 7 usb install media, and then install windows 7 in the netbook,using a windows system to do it, but with virtualbox in my desktop pc. In the netbook i want to install windows 7 alone. This i have only to do it in the netbook no ? I should where is mounted the usb, do a chown, chgrp and chmod 664 or 777 to that directory,to be able to copy the iso to the usb and from the usb to the desktop. If i have to copy it, with fat32, there are no permission problems, but if i use ext3 , The question now, is, do it in the netbook ?, or copy it to the debian i have in my desktop pc ?


There is another option that is use a virtual machine with windows 7, or a laptop with windows, to create the usb, using one microsoft tool that was created to do this in one step or two by microsoft.Īlthough, why i couldn't do this from linux, if in technet a man (that works as systems administrator responsible for OS Customization, Deployment and Setup), has said me that i should be able to do this with debian, and that i don't need the windows iso tool to do this, neither doing this in windows, or debian, that the only changes is the tools used. It seems that the better method is the second, as is almost identical to what in technet forum said me. Once you have created that partition, mount the iso that you download, and copy all files starting from the root, into the root of the usb flash drive. Since this can be done with windows, but just as well with a tool like gparted, you should be able to do the same in debian. in whatever way you do it is the following:įormat a usb flash drive, either fat32 or ntfs create a partition that is large enough to host the windows installation (give or take 3GB for 64bit, aroudn 2.5gb for 32bit) and mark that partition as active/bootable. I personally am not very familiar with linux, but basicly all that you need to do.
