On 4/19/18, Leandro Noferini <lnofe...@cybervalley.org> wrote: > Curt <cu...@free.fr> writes: > > > [...] > >> If not, this is the closest to "pre-cooked" I've found: >> >> http://www.sgvulcan.com/2010/01/06/installing-debian-using-only-ssh/ >> >> In the comment area Wojciech GomoĊa opines it "works pretty good >> with Debian 9.1.0." >> >> The solution does require the headless machine to be capable of booting >> from >> cd. > > [...] > > I tried this solution but I had to stop at last passage, when we need to > recreate the new image. In the article there is this command > > mkisofs -o ../custom_install.iso -r -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 > -boot-info-table -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat ../isonew > > But mkisofs does not exist in debian anymore. In its place (?) we have > genisoimage but I cannot find the right options to have the same result. > > What do I need to give as options?
I've had some mostly bad luck in this topic (relative to messing around with virtual machines), BUT... I did learn that you can do something like: xorriso -as mkisofs Try researching that and see if you can find something that does what you're trying to do. You might need to drop the hyphen (-) in searches because that sometimes tells search engines you do NOT want that word when you DO want it included in this particular search. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
