Hi Brian, On Sat, 30 May 2015, Brian Potkin wrote: > On the other hand, #785512 is reporting a "regression" between the > Jessie installer and some random, unknown, testing version for which > documentation of any intentional change is lacking. Note that it is not
Well, it is not *completely* unknown, it was this file: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso on/around 2014-05. So I wouldn't say this is "random", "unknown" etc ... > a "regression" compared with the Wheezy installer, which is also unable > to take advantage of GRUB's loopback facility. It is not about GRUB's loopback facility, but the missing iso-scan package in current installers. It don't know whether this packages was loaded in wheezy or not, but it was loaded in the above one. > There are at least three ways to boot a netinst ISO from a USB stick. An Hmm, I didn't find *one* that leaves the sstick useable for other things, and allows to boot into a variety of other rescue iso images etc at the same time. Please let me know which one? (Fat16 - was that a joke on the current jessie installer images about needing fat16 on the usb stick? The options explained on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en are all either destructive of previous data, or don't play well as carry on sticks for the emergency case, nor nor nor. ....) > additional one based on GRUB's loopback would be nice. All have their > advantages and disadvantages but installing Debian successfully without > the tedium and in a controlled manner is still possible without it. Is there a reason why iso-scan is *not* loaded? Thanks Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
