Re: Re: Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-09 Thread Julian Rüger
Hey Brian, > I did this, although usually I extract only the kernel and the initrd. In that case you need an initrd with the loop module added, I tried to keep this as simple as possible. > I didn't expect this to work and indeed it didn't. My understanding is > that an ext* module is not availa

Re: Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 May 2013 at 21:40:56 +0200, Julian Rüger wrote: > 1. Booting from USB flash, USB hard drive, or internal hd, is basically > all the same. You first need to install grub2 on it. If you already have > a running system with grub2 on the hd you want to boot the installer > from, you can skip

Re: Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-08 Thread Julian Rüger
Oh, one more thing: > The entry should look like this: > > menuentry "Debian 7.0 wheezy installer, x86_64" { > linux /debian_iso/install.amd/vmlinuz priority=low vga=788 -- > initrd /debian_iso/install.amd/initrd.gz > } This will set the installer to "expert mode", leave out priorit

Re: Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-08 Thread Julian Rüger
Hello together, it seems you are all thinking way too complicated. As I suggested in the other thread, I'm just gonna post a little howto. So, here it goes: 1. Booting from USB flash, USB hard drive, or internal hd, is basically all the same. You first need to install grub2 on it. If you already

Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 May 2013 at 20:11:40 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: [Snip] > Instead, i want to devote a small partition to the project: i would > like to ideally place just an iso image on the partition, but i guess > it could be larger, but no more than a few G. I would like to then > install from the iso p

Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-07 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 07 May 2013 20:11:40 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Suppose that i don't want to make a bootable usb stick, or burn a cd, > or burn a dvd. Yes, as long as you can boot into GRUB2. Check my reply in other thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-07 Thread Matthew Bentley
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > ... > Instead, i want to devote a small partition to the project: i would > like to ideally place just an iso image on the partition, but i guess > it could be larger, but no more than a few G. I would like to then > install from the iso partitio

Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/05/13 11:11 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: The question has recently come up about how to install debian from an iso file but not burn a disc. So far, there have been a couple of suggestions to burn to a usb stick. Just for reference, this is certainly possible (and on ubuntu, you can make a bootabl

installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-07 Thread Dan Hitt
The question has recently come up about how to install debian from an iso file but not burn a disc. So far, there have been a couple of suggestions to burn to a usb stick. Just for reference, this is certainly possible (and on ubuntu, you can make a bootable usb stick quite easily, all gui, and t

booting from floppies, installing from ISO image on USB stick - is it possible ?

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew
Hi I have some Dell Optiplex (500 Mhz) boxes without - CD-ROM - ability to boot from USB (no such option in BIOS). The idea is to boot the box from floppies and use an USB stick with Debian .iso image. When booting from floppies (DISTRIB_RELEASE=3.1, installer build 20060304)- from logs: -

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-21 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:27, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:59PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > > > If you've got them mounted all the time, you can stick deb file: > > > statements in /etc/apt/sources.list pointed at the mounted images. > > > (

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-21 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:00, David wrote: > > Rather than treat them as ISO images, if you're going to have the images > permanently stored on the HD, why not just copy the contents of the > CDROMS into directories on an ext{2,3}, reiserfs - or whatever your > poison - filesystem and then in your s

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread David
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:59PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > > When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom #x > > > to be inserted. What I want to know is there so

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:59PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > > If you've got them mounted all the time, you can stick deb file: > > statements in /etc/apt/sources.list pointed at the mounted images. > > (Can't remember the syntax off the top of my head bu

Re: Installing from iso images. SOLVED

2004-03-17 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:12, Brian Brazil wrote: > > Comment out(#) the cdrom lines. Then alter the paths for deb file until > 'apt-get update' works correctly. Brute force but it worked for me. > > Brian What I was doing wrong was failing to apt-get update after the mods to /etc/apt/sources.list.

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
bob parker wrote: Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso images. When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom #x to be inserted. Wha

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:58:08PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > apt-get does not barf but it just ignores the /mnt lines and demands a cd. > > Here's /etc/sources.list > deb file:/mnt/Debian3.0/CD1/ pool woody unstable main contrib non-US/contrib > non-US/main non-free > deb file:/mnt/Debian3.0/CD2

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:51:56PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Tuesday March 16 at 07:38pm > Brian Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In fact I then export this to all my other systems with samba. BTW: > > you can't loopback from NTFS. > > Do you mean NFS? If so, have you looked at the

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom > #x to be inserted. What I want to know is there some way I can > divert this requirement to the corresponding iso image mounted on > /mnt via the loopback device? Should be able to. I

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few > > iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the > > 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso images

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:38, Brian Brazil wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few > > iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the > > 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso > images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for > Sarge plus the dvd iso images. > > When I use apt-get install whatever it c

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tuesday March 16 at 07:38pm Brian Brazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact I then export this to all my other systems with samba. BTW: > you can't loopback from NTFS. Do you mean NFS? If so, have you looked at the option for /etc/exports 'nohide'? man exports -- -johann koenig Now Playing:

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso > images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for > Sarge plus the dvd iso images. > > When I use apt-get install whatever it c

Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread bob parker
Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso images. When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom #x to be inserted. What I want to know i

Re: Installing from ISO

2002-06-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 04:03:50PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:55:00PM +0300, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > > > How to mount iso images I know. At current time I'm use RH7.3 ,which > > was installed from iso images. But I don't understand, how can I > > make the bootabl

Re: Installing from ISO

2002-06-30 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:55:00PM +0300, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > How to mount iso images I know. At current time I'm use RH7.3 ,which was > installed from iso images. But I don't understand, how can I make the > bootable floppy (in case with debian) and wat can I do further ;-( I installed

Re: Installing from ISO

2002-06-29 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
CS> You can mount an ISO image on a Linux System with CS> mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 your.iso /cdrom CS> but of course that implies that you already have some Linux box where CS> you can CS> mount the ISO and you have somehow access from your new box to that CS> Linux CS> machine.

Re: Installing from ISO

2002-06-29 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
You can mount an ISO image on a Linux System with mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 your.iso /cdrom but of course that implies that you already have some Linux box where you can mount the ISO and you have somehow access from your new box to that Linux machine. Maybe that helps C

Installing from ISO

2002-06-29 Thread Sergey A. Ovchar
Hello ;-) Can I install woody from iso-images. I haven't possibility to burn it on cd's. And if I can, how can I do that? Thanks;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]