Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-22 Thread Arjun Krishnan
> > > > My guess is that you are not following the instructions in the Debian > installation guide complemented by my commentary. You seem to have your own > idea of how to do things, which to me appears to be your own wild guess. > This is not the case. There's no need to be so negative and disres

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 2017-08-20 14:58 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Pascal Hambourg >wrote: >> Also, IIRC, the ISO file must be on a FAT filesystem, because at that >> stage the installer can only mount FAT or ISO9660. > >Oh! This does make a difference, because all my linux isos

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Arjun Krishnan
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 20/08/2017 à 19:53, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : > >> On 2017-08-20 13:36 -0400 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >> >>> So thinking I had the wrong initrd like you suggested, I copied the >>> initrd >>> and vmlinuz to the root partition of the

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/08/2017 à 19:53, Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : On 2017-08-20 13:36 -0400 Arjun Krishnan wrote: So thinking I had the wrong initrd like you suggested, I copied the initrd and vmlinuz to the root partition of the usb *Which* “initrd”? There are many of them. The ones *inside* the ISO im

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 2017-08-20 13:36 -0400 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >Now grub.cfg has entries that look like this, where debian-squeeze.iso is >on the root directory of the usb drive. Also (again I forgot in the previous message): I was assuming that you were trying to install Debian 9 “stretch”, not Debian 6 “Squee

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 2017-08-20 13:36 -0400 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >So thinking I had the wrong initrd like you suggested, I copied the initrd >and vmlinuz to the root partition of the usb *Which* “initrd”? There are many of them. The ones *inside* the ISO image does not work for loading the ISO image from an exist

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 2017-08-20 09:59 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >> The installer needs to find its own ISO image. The non-live installer >> will only search by default in the root directories of your >> file-systems, but not in the subdirectories. Maybe this is the case >> with the live installer as well. Try put

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Arjun Krishnan
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Mario Castelán Castro < marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > On 2017-08-20 09:59 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: > >> The installer needs to find its own ISO image. The non-live installer > >> will only search by default in the root directories of your > >> file-systems,

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 2017-08-19 21:49 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: >Once I get to the boot screen and try to run the graphical installer, it >fails after loading the kernel. But the live cd does boot. However, the >live cd that I booted above (cinnamon+nonfree) does not have a way to run >the debian installer after

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-20 Thread Arjun Krishnan
On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Mario Castelán Castro < marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > On 2017-08-19 21:49 -0600 Arjun Krishnan wrote: > >Once I get to the boot screen and try to run the graphical installer, it > >fails after loading the kernel. But the live cd does boot. However, the > >live

Re: Debian live installer problems

2017-08-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 08/19/2017 08:49 PM, Arjun Krishnan wrote: Hi I've been trying to get a debian installer working on my usb stick. The stick has an EFI partition I dont know where this bug should be filed, since I cannot file it against a package. So I thought i'd ask here. I'm happy to file a bug and leav

Debian live installer problems

2017-08-19 Thread Arjun Krishnan
Hi I've been trying to get a debian installer working on my usb stick. The stick has an EFI partition and grub installed. The debian live cd iso is stored under a folder called `/boot/iso`. The grub.cfg contains entries of the form set imgdevpath='/dev/disk/by-uuid/' menuentry '[loopback]