I have just re-installed my Debian MythTV server now that I have bought it bigger disks. In fact, with two new 1TB (ie approx 1000 Gigs) disks, I have put them together as a RAID1 pair and use this box to act as my new Home Internet Gateway.

I wanted to use Debian Squeeze because it will soon (sic) become Debian Stable and it is the first distribution that supports the Ext-4 filesystem that I feel is necessary for this important set of files.

However, I do not have a CD-ROM drive on this machine, so this is the story of installing Debian Squeeze using just just usb memory. With the easy and availability of USB to SD card converters, it does not matter whether you use a memory stick or an SD card – the process can be the same.

I have also decided to use extlinux as the boot loader. I have simple boot requirements, and feel nervous that using Grub (the Debian standard) means the use of a program to create the configuration file. What happens when I need to do something manual.