Hi, > Brian <[email protected]> hat am 9. Februar 2016 um 11:40 > geschrieben: > > > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 01:22:49 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Brian <[email protected]> hat am 8. Februar 2016 um 19:50 > > > geschrieben: > > > [...] > My assumption (incorrect) was that the ISO had been put on the stick > using 'cp debian.iso /dev/sdX' as described at > > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-isohybrid > > It appears you have used the less common hard disk method of booting > with a separate kernel and initrd. The isohybrid nature of the ISO is > immaterial in this case. > > If you stay with the present stick mount the partition the ISO is on: > > mount /dev/sdXn /media/cdrom > > Access the contents of the ISO by mounting it with > > mount /media/cdrom/debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso /mnt > > In sources.list have > > deb file:/mnt/debian stretch main contrib
Brian, the first good news: You're a crack troubleshot! That's where it was at! I'm sorry not to have mentioned that I chose the more manual install procedure, just to force me to learn more about installing GNU/Linux. This USB boot stick procedure is described in the Installation manual in section 4.3.3. But what I hadn't considered was that I'd have to keep it in mind at the moment of installing additional packages. Now the other good news: LC_ALL=C apt-get update Get:1 file:/mnt/debian stretch InRelease Ign:1 file:/mnt/debian stretch InRelease Get:2 file:/mnt/debian stretch Release [18.7 kB] Get:2 file:/mnt/debian stretch Release [18.7 kB] Get:3 file:/mnt/debian stretch Release.gpg Ign:3 file:/mnt/debian stretch Release.gpg Reading package lists... Done E: Release file for file:/mnt/debian/dists/stretch/Release is expired (invalid since 21h 50min 47s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. That's actually good news, isn't it? :-) Well, thanks for your help (and for that of anyone else who participated in this thread). I have to go through it again... Thanks Stephan
