Followup-For: Bug #1031696 Control: tags -1 - moreinfo I've been able to build local NETINST ISO images successfully using the merged changes (thanks, Steve), and was also able to file-copy them to a FAT32 filesystem and successfully boot from that into Debian Installer using QEMU.
Building images with the '-f' option to xorriso also works.. it's not clear to me yet whether the results are an improvement, though. Pete: perhaps it'd be worth filing a separate bug for the documentation-copy issue? It'd be good to understand what the practical implications of that are.