I did have the live iso as a bootable disk, not just on it, sorry for my wording.. i actually used the live boot to image netinst to a seperate usb, and went from there. Thanks :) hopefully if anyone rlse has this issue theyll see this.
On Thursday, May 5, 2016, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 05 May 2016 at 09:47:20 (-0400), Ralph Sanchez wrote: > > Ok. First things first, I have been able to setup a new usb for netinst. > > But, for future reference on this issue... > > > > Yes, this happens before setting up mirrors > > > > Also, trying to use the installer from boot menu instead of within live > > image gave the same type of error, just much faster. > > > > As far as contents of the sources.list, the deb cdrom line that commonly > > needs commented out was not there. Sources.list.d was empty. > > > > My only solution was to get netinst.iso, and then run the # cp debian.iso > > /dev/sdX command followed by # sync, which was highly finicky as it did > not > > want to run correctly or recognize host, but it did eventually work. > > I hadn't realised you had the iso as a file on the stick rather than > as the stick. Presumably you could have loop-mounted the iso rather > than having to copy it to drive sdX. > > Typically the installer tries in turn to mount any partitions it can > find onto /media/cdrom. You can see this process going on in the logs > scrolling by on VC4. Thus it would find sdX by itself, whereas it > would need telling if the partition was squirrelled away in a file. > > > On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Elimar Riesebieter <riese...@lxtec.de > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > * Ralph Sanchez <rwsanch...@gmail.com <javascript:;> <javascript:;>> > [2016-05-05 03:17 > > > -0400]: > > > > > > > Update: like i said, i am running from the install from within the > Live > > > > boot from usb. I configured network, partitioning, etc and got to > > > > installing system. Bar is about 95 percent full and says retreiving > file > > > 1 > > > > of 2 when it switches to a windows saying :: /media/cdrom/:Please > > > insert > > > > the disc labeled: 'Debian GNU/Linux 8 _jessie_-Official Snapshot > amd64 > > > > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20160402-2159' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and > press > > > > enter. > > Cheers, > David. > >
