Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Aditya Garg wrote: > This one is gonna be interesting. > Wish me luck. Fingers are crossed ... (But everything in the procedure is supposed to be deterministic. So there is few room for luck, good or bad. We rather have to navigate the chaos.) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-16 Thread Aditya Garg
Well I'm used to unsquashfs, chroot, squashfs and repack the iso. This one is gonna be interesting. Wish me luck. > On 16 May 2024, at 9:42 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> Not the OP, but thanks, Thomas. > > Well, ISO 9660 is known to be my hobby. So i can h

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Not the OP, but thanks, Thomas. Well, ISO 9660 is known to be my hobby. So i can hardly resist trying to acquire new users for xorriso. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-16 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 05:20:40PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Aditya Garg wrote: > > I would prefer making the ISO as similar to the official Debian ISO and just > > replace the Debian kernel with the customised kernel. > > In that case, i'd go alon

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Aditya Garg wrote: > I would prefer making the ISO as similar to the official Debian ISO and just > replace the Debian kernel with the customised kernel. In that case, i'd go along https://wiki.debian.org/RepackBootableISO Either by using the xorrisofs options in /.disk/mkisofs

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-16 Thread Aditya Garg
2 Macs and provide to the users. There has been a demand for Debian for a long time and I wish to provide the ISOs for the same. I would prefer making the ISO as similar to the official Debian ISO and just replace the Debian kernel with the customised kernel. I've already set up an apt repo

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
ISO as base for the preparation: https://wiki.debian.org/RepackBootableISO Packages may probably be added at the appropriate place in the directory tree under /pool. (Managing a Debian repo is not my turf. Sorry for being vague here.) Changing the content of a Debian ISO might need some follow-up work

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

2024-05-11 Thread Marvin Renich
* Aditya Garg [240511 05:15]: > Hello > > I wanted to create a custom ISO of Debian, with the following customisations: > > 1. I want to add a custom kernel that supports my Hardware. > 2. I want to add my own Apt repo which hosts various software packages to > support my hardware. > > I am no

Re: [?]Boot Debian Live image with Grub loopback loop line with Debian iso

2021-03-18 Thread Susmita/Rajib
Thank you, Dr. George and Mr. Makartsev, for your inputs. Of late, it appears as if Debian is an endlessly branching vortex. One begins with an intent to solve one problem (in my case, can't use the sound card in duplex mode), but is pushed into another. Debian appears to have become unmanageably

Re: [?]Boot Debian Live image with Grub loopback loop line with Debian iso

2021-03-18 Thread Nicolas George
Susmita/Rajib (12021-03-18): > My illustrious Team Members, > > Acting on your advice on the Realtek thread, I have downloaded a Live > ISO of Debian Buster debian-live-10.8.0-amd64-lxde.iso and proceeded > from there. > > I had created a lot of unnecessary noise (at that time, unduly made > anxi

Re: [?]Boot Debian Live image with Grub loopback loop line with Debian iso

2021-03-18 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 18.03.2021 11:33, Susmita/Rajib wrote: ... Then I was able to reach only up to (initramfs), snapshot at the following Link: http://bit.do/Debian10-8-0_stallingHere I most humbly request you to please be a little patient with me as I am not as gifted as you are in these matters. Best. Rajib

[?]Boot Debian Live image with Grub loopback loop line with Debian iso

2021-03-17 Thread Susmita/Rajib
My illustrious Team Members, Acting on your advice on the Realtek thread, I have downloaded a Live ISO of Debian Buster debian-live-10.8.0-amd64-lxde.iso and proceeded from there. I had created a lot of unnecessary noise (at that time, unduly made anxious by no help received) across many List pag

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-14 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 14/01/18 03:00 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... > Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." > -- Linus Torvalds It's probably the exposure to Windows that does it. -- cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pascal wrote: >Le 10/01/2018 à 05:34, The Wanderer a écrit : >> >> the sizes of the images, particularly in the >> case of multi-image sets, are determined based on what is expected to be >> able to fit on a DVD or a CD. > >Not only. Otherwise, the #1 (bootable) DVD images would have a size of

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/01/2018 à 05:34, The Wanderer a écrit : the sizes of the images, particularly in the case of multi-image sets, are determined based on what is expected to be able to fit on a DVD or a CD. Not only. Otherwise, the #1 (bootable) DVD images would have a size of 4.7 GB, like subsequent DVD

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jan 2018 at 13:28:17 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > >David Wright wrote: > > >>Perhaps /etc/apt/sources.list could have a one-line pointer to a text > >>file that explained the options available and how to achieve them. > > > >At the very least, to go with the ch

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre wrote: >David Wright wrote: >>On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> * if you've used a bigger (set of) image(s), then you most likely >>>will want to use this again in the future. This is to support >>>people using CD/DVD media sets for insta

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
David Wright wrote: >On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >> This is a long-standing design decision that probably merits >> re-examination, yes. The current logic assumes: >> >> * if you've used a "netinst" to install, then you won't want to use >>it again late

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: > hosack...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not > >seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: > > > >This is what happened. > >I decided to install Debian on my smal

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:41:12 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion > > of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue > > indeed, although a relatively mi

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/09/2018 07:54 PM, John Hosack wrote: Hello, This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-10 at 05:41, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the >> conclusion of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an >> issue indeed, although a relatively minor one. But th

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/10/2018 04:41 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue indeed, although a relatively minor one. But the inclusion

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
hosack...@gmail.com wrote: > >This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not >seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: > >This is what happened. >I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB >ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debian-9.

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion > of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue > indeed, although a relatively minor one. But the inclusion of the > entry in sources.list is not an erro

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-09 at 22:54, John Hosack wrote: > Hello, > > This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not > seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: Bug reports need to be filed in the Debian bug tracker, on bugs.debian.org, not mailed to debian-user. You can

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread David Christensen
On 01/09/18 19:54, John Hosack wrote: This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debi

Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-09 Thread John Hosack
Hello, This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debian-9.3.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso and

Re: Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-03 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Sep 02 2016,David Wright wrote: [snipped 9 lines] > $ dpkg -l > will list all the packages on the machine. The files > /var/log/aptitude* track what you install with aptitude, and > /var/log/apt/history* does likewise for apt-get. > /var/log/apt/term* gives a dump of the screen during th

Re: Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-03 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Fri, Sep 02 2016,Neal P. Murphy wrote: [snipped 11 lines] >> If there's a distribution aligned for scientific computing or >> statistical tools along with the bells and whistles, it'd help. >> >> sivaram > > Have you found Debian Science (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience)? Thanks, I sh

Re: Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Sep 2016 at 08:28:23 (+0530), Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > Is there a distribution specced out for R/Python/Julia based tools > with all their related packages? I've been trying to do a custom VM > image with the packages installed along with a few editors and doing a > rank amateur m

Re: Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-02 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Sat, 03 Sep 2016 08:28:23 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > Is there a distribution specced out for R/Python/Julia based tools > with all their related packages? I've been trying to do a custom VM > image with the packages installed along with a few editors and doing a > rank amateur mupp

Debian iso for machine learning?

2016-09-02 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Is there a distribution specced out for R/Python/Julia based tools with all their related packages? I've been trying to do a custom VM image with the packages installed along with a few editors and doing a rank amateur muppet job at it. I'm close to giving up because I've lost track of what I in

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the > Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact > that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using > Ethernet) during installation. > > My adv

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 14:49:10 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2015 14:04:29 Brian wrote: > > The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together > > with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun > > or turning the house upside down looking

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 09:21:19 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together > > with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun > > or turning the house up

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 19:17:55 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > > > >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote: > >> > >> > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 May 2015 14:04:29 Brian wrote: > The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together > with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun > or turning the house upside down looking for a network card. The choice > to use it exists. Of course! I

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > >> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote: >> >> > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not >> > work for you. However, all is not lost. >> > >> > It wa

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:43:17 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote: > > > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not > > work for you. However, all is not lost. > > > > It was mentioned earlier that the image has a second partit

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: > The unofficial installer (netinst + non-free firmware) was put together > with the aim of avoiding having people drive a long way in the hot sun > or turning the house upside down looking for a network card. The choice > to use it exists.

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Brian wrote: > It is disappointing that the advice in the Installation Guide did not > work for you. However, all is not lost. > > It was mentioned earlier that the image has a second partition which > could be used for holding firmware files. Unfortunately, the sp

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 18:23:51 +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2015 09:07:44 +0100 Lisi Reisz sent: > > > > My advice will be : Do not try to use firmware files at the time of > > > installation. > > > > I echo that! > > > > > In short though official Debian Installation Guide discusses

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 May 2015 at 09:13:00 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the > Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact > that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using > Ethernet) during installa

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 May 2015 09:23:51 Charlie wrote: > It's always been a "phew" moment, heaps of stress and always a question > of: "will it work", till it's done. Yes - I realised that I chickened out. I tried. But once it got stressful, I just said "oh, blow this!" and reached for an old network ca

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 1 May 2015 09:07:44 +0100 Lisi Reisz sent: > > My advice will be : Do not try to use firmware files at the time of > > installation. > > I echo that! > > > In short though official Debian Installation Guide discusses about > > loading the firmware files alongside the Debian installatio

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-05-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 01 May 2015 04:43:00 Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the > Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact > that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using > Ethernet) during installation. >

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-30 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using Ethernet) during installation. My advice will be : Do not try to use firmware files at the time

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > I have made another USB port working so now I am using 2 USB sticks. > One as debian 8.0 installation media and another to hold firmware .deb > packages. > > But when I try to load the drivers in one of the installation steps it says: > "Detected re

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Present Situation: I have made another USB port working so now I am using 2 USB sticks. One as debian 8.0 installation media and another to hold firmware .deb packages. But when I try to load the drivers in one of the installation steps it says: "Detected removable media that is not a known drive

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Brian wrote: > Do we assume the firmware files on the FAT partition are .deb packages? > Do you have an existing linux installation? Yes. all firmware files are .deb packages and yes currently I am using Ubuntu. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://w

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > >> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it > >> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically > >> brcm/

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > > But my workaround (to reduce bandwidth as much as I could) would be to > > install with firmware-netinst as far as the first reboot and then use > > the DVD you've got from then on. > >

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > A new development: > > Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk > which is holding the > firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used > default block values from fdisk. > > Start partition at block mo

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Apr 2015 at 21:43:21 +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > A new development: > > Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk > which is holding the > firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used > default block values from fdisk. > > Start part

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Is it just me or is the option to install an alternative desktop > environment missing from the advanced options of both amd64 netinstall > isos ( official and firmware-unofficial)? The desktop option has been added to the tasksel stage. It is a better place for it. # tasksel -t

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright > wrote: > > But then won't Debian will be downloading all the packages from > internet while installing from netinst image? Can I use the existing > amd64 dvd1 iso then? (instead of downloading packages extra

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Wright wrote: > But my workaround (to reduce bandwidth as much as I could) would be to > install with firmware-netinst as far as the first reboot and then use > the DVD you've got from then on. But then won't Debian will be downloading all the packages from

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt wrote: > > On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version > >>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ > >>> take a

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-29, Curt wrote: >> > > Yes, you have the official iso, but in order to obviate the difficulties > you're encountering, David is saying you have the option of downloading the > unofficial iso with the firmware included (that way you're off and > running to the races without further ado).

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
A new development: Now I have managed to create a separate FAT partition using fdisk which is holding the firmware files. The reason why earlier I couldn't is because I used default block values from fdisk. Start partition at block more that size of iso - #debian IRC Now installer to begins smo

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version >>> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ >>> take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a r

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-29, Avinash Sonawane wrote: >> >> I'm not sure which iso you downloaded. If it was the netinst version >> from https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ >> take a look further down the page where there's a panel with a red >> cross. Here you can get the netinst iso with f

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): >> I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it >> reported some firmware being missing (more specifically >> brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from >> ht

Re: [Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Avinash Sonawane (root...@gmail.com): > I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it > reported some firmware being missing (more specifically > brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware

[Debian 8.0 Installation] Firmware files on USB stick with debian iso

2015-04-29 Thread Avinash Sonawane
Hi! Debian n00b here! I am trying to install Debian 8.0 on my system. While installing it reported some firmware being missing (more specifically brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw) so I downloaded the firmware files from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/jessie/current/ I am using US

Re: Cannot import packages from debian iso to apt-cacher-ng

2014-01-23 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Can anyone please rectify me. I have got some weird doubts. I have set up a PXE boot server. It has a forder /srv/tftp and it has all the required files for PXE install. I have also installed apt-cacher-ng on that PXE server. And that PXE server is also acting as a local DHCP server. So now, wha

Re: Cannot import packages from debian iso to apt-cacher-ng

2014-01-19 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Then I recommend taking the easy way out. Just install one machine > using apt-cacher-ng as a proxy. Then all of the packages will be > ready for the next machine. Install the rest using the proxy and they > will use the already downloaded files. It is simple. It works. Was it so easy. How

Re: Cannot import packages from debian iso to apt-cacher-ng

2014-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Anubhav Yadav wrote: > I installed a 32 bit Debian Wheezy on a PC (One PC in a lab of 24 computers). > I made it a dhcp PXE server with netboot images of Debian 7 32 bits. > It worked perfectly and all the 20 computers booted from network with > the debian installer. Good for you. > The only prob

Cannot import packages from debian iso to apt-cacher-ng

2014-01-19 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I installed a 32 bit Debian Wheezy on a PC (One PC in a lab of 24 computers). I made it a dhcp PXE server with netboot images of Debian 7 32 bits. It worked perfectly and all the 20 computers booted from network with the debian installer. The only problem was that all the packages had to be retrie

Re: boot from USB and install debian using grub2 and netinstall debian iso image

2013-12-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Dec 2013 at 11:36:16 +0100, ha wrote: > When you refer to the isohybrid image you mean the CD image that is > simply dd-ed to the USB? This is not preferable, as USB that can > store 8, 16 or even 32 GB is wasted because of only 3,2,1 GB or even > less. It needn't be wasted if you use i

Re: boot from USB and install debian using grub2 and netinstall debian iso image

2013-12-17 Thread ha
> If I did have any knowledge I've forgotten most of it. :) In the end I > decided booting from an isohybrid on a USB stick was far more convenient > than whatever I devised, which may have involved remastering the ISO. When you refer to the isohybrid image you mean the CD image that is simply d

Re: boot from USB and install debian using grub2 and netinstall debian iso image

2013-12-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Dec 2013 at 15:25:56 +0100, ha wrote: > On 12/16/2013 12:45 PM, Brian wrote: > > > >Yes, using the hd-media kernel and initrd. Employing GRUB's loopback > >feature with a netinst ISO is not possible at present. > > Can you please point me in the right direction? Working mainly from mem

Re: boot from USB and install debian using grub2 and netinstall debian iso image

2013-12-16 Thread ha
On 12/16/2013 12:45 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 16 Dec 2013 at 09:40:17 +0100, ha wrote: [Snip] So the question is: 1. Did anybody managed to boot from USB and install debian using grub2 and the netinstall debian image? (i.e. Is this possible? Does netinstall support this?) Yes, using the hd-med

Re: boot from USB and install debian using grub2 and netinstall debian iso image

2013-12-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 16 Dec 2013 at 09:40:17 +0100, ha wrote: [Snip] > So the question is: > 1. Did anybody managed to boot from USB and install debian using > grub2 and the netinstall debian image? (i.e. Is this possible? Does > netinstall support this?) Yes, using the hd-media kernel and initrd. Employing G

boot from USB and install debian using grub2 and netinstall debian iso image

2013-12-16 Thread ha
I'm trying to tackle this problem for a quite some time now, and I'm getting quite annoyed by the fact that I cannot find the straightforward solution for it... Actually, I want to do exactly as the example here [1] suggest. So, I foolishly assumed that this is going to be a simple problem. Th

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Akhil Krishnan S
May be an outer topic :) I've got the link. cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/i386/bt-dvd/ On 9 Dec 2012 00:10, "Akhil Krishnan S" wrote: > Apologizes. No time to speak with intelligents & also not interested to > quarrel to those in above IQ than me. > On 8 Dec 2012 23:54, "Lisi Reisz" wrote:

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Akhil Krishnan S
Apologizes. No time to speak with intelligents & also not interested to quarrel to those in above IQ than me. On 8 Dec 2012 23:54, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2012 18:10:17 Akhil Krishnan S wrote: > > Have you tried Google? GIYF > > Yes. Also Wiktionary, Websters and Wikipedia.

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 December 2012 18:10:17 Akhil Krishnan S wrote: > Have you tried Google? GIYF Yes. Also Wiktionary, Websters and Wikipedia. I have now added the OED. All agree with me. Your statement makes absolutely no sense at all. So I repeat, what on earth do you mean? Lisi > > On 8 Dec

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Akhil Krishnan S wrote: > > On 8 Dec 2012 23:13, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: >> >> On Saturday 08 December 2012 17:33:13 Akhil Krishnan S wrote: >> > Sorry. I cant find a single file as an ISO like i can download from >> > www.ubuntu.com/download or www.linuxmint.com/downl

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Akhil Krishnan S
Have you tried Google? GIYF On 8 Dec 2012 23:34, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2012 17:52:31 Akhil Krishnan S wrote: > > Please remember that this mailing > > list have got you as dowry. > > What on earth do you mean? > > Lisi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 December 2012 17:52:31 Akhil Krishnan S wrote: > Please remember that this mailing > list have got you as dowry. What on earth do you mean? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Akhil Krishnan S
On 8 Dec 2012 23:13, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > > On Saturday 08 December 2012 17:33:13 Akhil Krishnan S wrote: > > Sorry. I cant find a single file as an ISO like i can download from > > www.ubuntu.com/download or www.linuxmint.com/download.php > > Please figure out me one such link. > > Sorry if i'm

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 08 December 2012 17:33:13 Akhil Krishnan S wrote: > Sorry. I cant find a single file as an ISO like i can download from > www.ubuntu.com/download or www.linuxmint.com/download.php > Please figure out me one such link. > Sorry if i'm mistaken You have been given a Debian link. But a De

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread legop314
http://hammurabi.acc.umu.se/debian-cd/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-gnome-desktop.iso On 08/12/12 18:33, Akhil Krishnan S wrote: Sorry. I cant find a single file as an ISO like i can download from www.ubuntu.com/download or www.linuxmint.

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Akhil Krishnan S
Sorry. I cant find a single file as an ISO like i can download from www.ubuntu.com/download or www.linuxmint.com/download.php Please figure out me one such link. Sorry if i'm mistaken On 8 Dec 2012 22:36, "Gábor Hársfalvi" wrote: > http://www.debian.org/CD/live/#choose_live > > > > > 2012/12/8 Ak

Re: Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
http://www.debian.org/CD/live/#choose_live 2012/12/8 Akhil Krishnan S > Please point me a link to download Debian as ISO image file. (Wheezy & > Squeeze) Is it suitable to live test? > > Thanks in advance :) >

Debian ISO file

2012-12-08 Thread Akhil Krishnan S
Please point me a link to download Debian as ISO image file. (Wheezy & Squeeze) Is it suitable to live test? Thanks in advance :)

Re: md5sum "How-To" for Debian iso download

2012-09-27 Thread Darac Marjal
nd attempted to execute the > md5sum.exe file to check the iso file I downloaded. > > I downloaded the debian iso file to my desktop and installed the > md5Sum.exe as per recommended (in system32) folder. I'm not sure I'm > typing the correct path. Hello Wally, You d

md5sum "How-To" for Debian iso download

2012-09-26 Thread Wally Lepore
I'm using windows 2000 and windows 7 to learn the process of verifying that the file I downloaded is in fact "error free". I went into the command prompt (cmd) in windows and attempted to execute the md5sum.exe file to check the iso file I downloaded. I downloaded the debian iso file

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 iul 12, 17:21:39, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > Posting gpg signing keys works for many other websites. How it works and > how I suggest... > - Go to https://some-project-website.com. > - Some root CA vouches for the identity of some-project-website.com. > - The author posts his gpg pu

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-03 Thread John Hasler
Rob writes: > Basically you can use the debian-keyring package to obtain keys of > many Debian developers. You can have a high level of trust that those > keys are real because the package is signed and apt-get would notify > you if the signature was not real. The iso you are downloading should >

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:34:15AM -0700, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing > keys? > > Of course, from a source verified by a common root certificate. Not from > the Debian CA, because there is no way to get

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:34:15 -0700, anotst01 wrote: > Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing > keys? (...) There's apt-secure: http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt But beyond that, I'm not aware of any TLS/SSL implementation. What kind of benefi

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-03 Thread Jochen Spieker
Roger Leigh: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:49:14PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> What I find more interesting is that the key 0x6294BE9B ("Debian CD >> signing key") only has nine signatures and only one from someone using >> his "official" @debian org address (0x3442684E, Steve McIntyre). That >>

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:08:08PM -0700, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > I still do believe a TLS encrypted source to obtain the iso signing keys > is necessary. TLS encryption means that - what travels over the connection is encrypted, and in theory only decryptable at the two endpoints - the id

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:49:14PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > What I find more interesting is that the key 0x6294BE9B ("Debian CD > signing key") only has nine signatures and only one from someone using > his "official" @debian org address (0x3442684E, Steve McIntyre). That > could surely be im

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread anotst01
I still do believe a TLS encrypted source to obtain the iso signing keys is necessary. What about the people who live many miles away from the next developer? Someone living on an isle should take the next flight just to get the gpg keys? What about the people who are unable to meet with the next

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
anots...@fastmail.fm: > > Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing > keys? None that I know of, but I don't see a need for that either. Sure, you could use one of the built-in certificates in your browser to bootstrap the chain of trust to the sig

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-02 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:34:15AM -0700, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing > keys? > > Of course, from a source verified by a common root certificate. Not from > the Debian CA, because there is no way to get

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