On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:55:52PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which would > > allow you to install by downloading stuff from the internet, as in the > > netboot option, without requiring the use of a local ISO, but I'm not > > sure which variant that would be. > > The nativehd and cdrom main menus are the same: > > xxxxxxxxxxx [!] Debian installer main menu xxxxxxxxxx > x > x Choose the next step in the install process: > x > x Choose language > x Select a keyboard layout > x Detect and mount CD-ROM > x Load installer components from CD > x Change debconf priority > x Check the CD-ROM(s) integrity > x Save debug logs > x Execute a shell > x Abort the installation > x > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > The hd-media flavour goes through "detecting hardware to find hard drives" > and "searching drives for an installer ISO image" stages and seems to > detect the partitions fine (on the quadra that is -- it doesn't use the > mac_scsi driver).
I think I tried them all when I reinstalled kullervo, and none of them would find the ISO image on the harddisk. I had to dig out an external CD-Rom drive for the installation. Is it really possible to install with an ISO image on a native partition? Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
