On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi, > Hi Thomas, See my previous mail. Made it work with xorriso 1.3.4. Do you still want me to go ahead and do what you wrote below? Thanks! S. > > first question because i am lacking other valid ideas: > > Does your machine boot the original netinst ISO from USB stick ? > > Second question: > > How large is your result image ? Can you upload it to a place > from where i could get it for inspection ? > > > For the details: > > > /root/debian/test.iso1 * 1 251 257008 17 Hidd HPFS/NTFS > > > I have no idea why it's HPFS/NTFS > > That's just the default type as proposed by H. Peter Anvin, > the author of SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX. > debian-7.3.0-i386-netinst.iso has the same partition type. > > > > [xorriso with arguments from Debian 7.3 amd64] > > It gave me an error related to -isohybrid-gpt-basdat > > You'd need xorriso-1.2.4 for -isohybrid-gpt-basdat. > But you do not need that option for booting via BIOS. > Only if you boot via EFI and have included a properly > equipped FAT filesystem image as file /boot/grub/efi.img. > > > > Also, as you can see, they use a manually compiled xorriso, I would > > assume: /home/93sam/xorriso > > Telling from the output of > xorriso -indev debian-7.3.0-i386-netinst.iso -pvd_info > debian-cd used xorriso-1.2.6 for production of its 7.3 ISOs. > Probably compiled from the GNU xorriso tarball, not from > Debian library packages: > http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.2.6.tar.gz > > I would nevertheless prefer if you make experiments with > the current release: > http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.3.4.tar.gz > > To avoid conflicts with the installed Debian packages, you > may omit "make install" and use xorriso-1.3.4 as > > /...some.path.../xorriso-1.3.4/xorriso/xorriso -as mkisofs ... > > > > > Does the USB stick make any difference when plugged in > > > or is it just ignored ? > > > No it doesn't make any difference. With or without it, the behavior > > is the same (see above). > > So the system does not have any other bootable disk attached, > which would step in when the USB stick is missing ? > > Thus my first question above. > > > > 1. I've done it in MacOSX with the method described > > here: > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx > > Step 3 looks suspicious. Afterwards the ISO might not be an > ISO any more. > > > > 2. I've done it in Linux (Debian, the same machine I used to create > > it) by dd'ing the contents of the iso to the USB stick. > > Onto e.g. /dev/sdb would be right, onto e.g. /dev/sdb1 would > be wrong. > > > 3. Again, in Linux (same machine) by copying the iso directly to > > /dev/sdm and then doing sync. > > "/dev/sdm" ... Lots of disk devices attached ? > > What was the difference between "dd'ing the contents of the iso" > and "copying the iso directly" ? > Just the use of command "dd" versus command "cp" ? > Both should have the same effect with a block device as target. > Both should be ok. > > The fdisk output looks plausible. > Option -lu rather than -l would show more exact block addresses > rather than cylinder addresses. But the type "Hidden NTFS" alone > indicates that the partition table of the image found its right > place on the USB stick. > > > > > Did you submit it as emulated hard disk (rather than as CD-ROM) ? > > Umm ... don't know for sure, when you create a new virtual machine, > > it asks for a image. > > These are the hardships of GUI operation. With a qemu command > line one could tell whether you used -hda or -cdrom to submit > the image file. > > > > Would it be possible for you to make a deb for Wheezy with the latest > > version of xorriso or do I have to compile it by hand? > > I am not a Debian regular. You would need three new library > packages and one application package. > The GNU xorriso tarball is intended to ease this plight: > > tar xzf xorriso-1.3.4.tar.gz > cd xorriso-1.3.4 && ./configure && make > > If all went well, then > > ./xorriso/xorriso -version > > should tell some lines about xorriso and its supporing libraries. > As said above, you may use this program without "make install". > > Alternatively, Debian "testing" currently provides xorriso-1.3.2 > and the necessary library packages. > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > >
