Re: Towards a customized netinst

2017-09-22 Thread Richard Owlett
Thomas Schmitt's post of 09/21/2017 09:47 AM prompted me to rephrase my initial post of this sub-thread. My initial goal is a "thingy" which a human at a terminal would not notice any operational difference from netinst.iso on a CD. This "thingy" would: 1. *NOT* have any internal assumption

Re: Towards a customized netinst

2017-09-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had been attempting to follow the pattern of "Debian-Installer: How to > modify an existing CD image - Create copy of the image" > That's about what you did with xorriso. I'd call "unpacking

Towards a customized netinst {a rephrasing of "Installing the installer"}

2017-09-21 Thread Richard Owlett
My initial goal is a "thingy" which a human at a terminal would not notice any operational difference from netinst.iso on a CD. This "thingy" would: 1. *NOT* have any internal assumption of being ISO9660 compliant. 2. intrinsically assume it will be resident on an ext2 device. 3. be recogni