On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 02:39:33AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >[SNIP]
> >>>>
> >>>>I keep getting suggestions to approximately meet *SPECIFICATION* by ... ;/
> >>>
> >
> >Can you afford two USB sticks - one 32G and one 64G?
>
> Wrong question <ROFL>
> I accumulate so many that I'm looking for a feasible method of
> storing them so I can quickly, easily and reliably retrieve the
> desired stick.
>
> Any proposed "solution" involving the internet is *UNACCEPTABLE*
> !!!!!
> would YOU like to download ~40 GB via 56k modem (jigdo or not)?
> <*SNICKER*>
>
>
> THEREFORE any acceptable solution must either:
> identify in country vendor supplying preloaded USB sticks
> <unlikely>
> OR
> begin with complete set of physical install DVDs <which I have
> on my desk ;>
>
>
>
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Richard,
You've got the 10 DVDs. Please go and get 2 x USB sticks and follow some of the
previous steps that I outlined above.
Since you have all 10 disks and jigdo-lite can use DVDs as a source of files.
As root
Place DVD1 in the disk tray on your machine.
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /dev/dvd /mnt
[If at that point you were to cd /mnt, you would see the files inside the DVD].
Download the template and jigdo files for the BD1 as suggested before.
jigdo-lite debian-7.4.0-i386-BD-1.jigdo
Using jigdo-lite, one of the options it offers is to use files contained on an
old DVD / mount point. Enter /mnt
When that completes, you should have 1/10 of the files you need. Umount /mnt,
insert disk2, mount as before and repeat
jigdo-lite debian-7.4.0-i386-BD-1.jigdo
At the end of it all after 5 DVDS, you should end up with a 22G BD.iso and
checksums matching. At that point, you can dd it to a stick and proceed
as above.
You can repeat the procedure to get the templates and to generate BD2 with DVDs
6-10.
[For reference, I've done more or less just this, except that I used a .iso
file for DVD1 rather than a physical DVD to get hold of the first 3600 files
matching the
BD template ]
For any machines needing non-free firmware (if required): you will need the
-wheezy firmware files to match any files that are missing: for my machine in
the next room, for example, I need
firmware-realtek so you would download from
ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-realtek_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb
ar -x
run on the .deb will unpack the .deb [Probably good to create a temporary
directory to do this in]
This creates a control.tar.gz, a data.tar.gz and a debian-binary text file. The
firmware you need is in the data.tar.gz
tar -zxvf data.tar.gz
producing a lib/firmware/ hierarchy containing the .fw files. Write these to
the root directory of the second stick with the vfat filesystem and insert the
stick when prompted for non-free firmware.
Hope this helps you, sir,
All the best,
AndyC
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