On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst > > > image or CD-1 to complete successfully. > > If you say so :-) > I do say so. > > I find it hard to believe though... > In such situations it is best to try it, wouldn't you agree? I'll even > give you a grub stanza to adjust for your needs. > menuentry "jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst" { > loopback loop (hd1,msdos1)/boot/isos/debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso > linux (loop)/install.386/vmlinuz > initrd (loop)/install.386/initrd.gz > } > It would be nice (and might help the OP) if you reported what happens > and declared yourself a believer. :) Assuming 1. you have grub-imageboot and syslinux-common packages installed -- [that will put memdisk into /boot] 2. The netinst iso is in images directory 3. sda7 is root After that this stanza starts the debian installer alright menuentry "Bootable Netinst ISO Image: Debian" { insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='hd0,msdos7' linux16 /boot/memdisk iso initrd16 /boot/images/debian-7.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso } Does it complete?? No idea. I dont have a free machine (or time) to try out -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/f97473f4-3326-4aa3-8348-6c690ec53...@googlegroups.com