On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:44:54 -0400 Joey Hess <[email protected]> wrote:
>> in Ubuntu, the relevant parameter is "iso-scan/filename=<FILENAME>". > > iso-scan is part of the Debian installer. > I wrote it. Always nice to have my Debian work cited as another reason > Ubuntu is better than Debian! Well, it's better in the sense that they actually include it in their standard ISO images, whereas for Debian: > it is only included in the hd-media initrd. There is no reason to > include it on the regular CD initrd, because isohybrid allows mounting > the USB stick directly. (Not a loop-mount of an iso file included in > some disk, which the hd-media initrd handles.) There actually is a reason to include it: because then the Debian ISO can be contained in a normal filesystem along with others, using grub or syslinux to select which one to boot. > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-easy This still doesn't explain how the initrd knows which ISO to use if there is more than one of them, and the "iso-scan/filename" parameter isn't specified. I see that the iso-scan package is 90KB, compressed: http://packages.debian.org/stable/iso-scan This is absolutely nothing in comparison to the size of a 200MB ISO image. Is there any real reason NOT to include it, when doing so would enable the multi-ISO flashdrive usage? On a related subject, if you have any influence with Ubuntu, could you get them to apply this patch? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1159464 -- Ian Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
