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I want to make a bootable Debian flash drive.

Seemed straightforward, something I did before with different distros and specialized tools.

I grabbed the armhf image from here: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/armhf/iso-cd/debian-9.3.0-armhf-netinst.iso

Plugged in the flash drive, formatted it and gave image to Rufus with default settings.

Unfortunately Rufus kept giving me the Unsupported image error. I checked the hash, and it seemed to be ok. So I grabbed the full image from torrent. Only to get the same error.

I tried all the available partition schemes in Rufus, with no success. I even tried a different drive, although I was pretty much sure it is innocent in this.

At this point I am pretty dumbstruck. I can get a different distro, but I don't like the idea of not knowing where is the problem.

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    Use YUMI instead of Rufus.
    – Biswapriyo
    Commented Jan 31, 2018 at 19:56

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What you need here in my opinion, to create bootable USB pendrive, is not debian-9.3.0-armhf-netinst.iso image, but debian-9.3.0-armhf-xfce-CD-1.iso according to this :

What is a netinst image?
The netinst CD here is a small CD image that contains just the core Debian installer code and a small core set of text-mode programs (known as "standard" in Debian). To install a desktop or other common software, you'll also need either an Internet connection or some other Debian CD/DVD images.

Hope this helps.

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