tags 524877 wontfix thanks On Monday 20 April 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > Is there a way to put debian-501-amd64-i386-powerpc-netinst.iso or > later inside an USB stick so that the USB stick may be used to install > either Debian/i386 or Debian/amd64? > > If so, it would be great if the install guide explains how to do that. > > I tried putting the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files for i386 and the > multiarchitecture iso image, but the installer seems not to find it.
You also need the hd-media kernel and initrd for amd64 (which seems obvious to me). After that all that is really needed is correct configuration of syslinux (or whatever bootloader you wish to use). You should be able to do that by studying the syslinux configuration of the multi-boot CD. IMO this is rather outside the scope of the manual. You are welcome to document it on the wiki if you figure it out. There are vague plans to change the way USB sticks are created (using a script that sets things up on demand). Possibly m-a could be supported in that. > Another useful addition would be that the install manual says how to > prepare the USB stick so that it starts the installer in expert mode. > It seems this is everything which is needed for that: > > default vmlinuz > append priority=low initrd=initrd.gz > > Would be nice to see that in the install guide. This is already documented in the section on boot parameters. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
