Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:18:48PM +, Steven Ayre wrote: Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Boot from the installer in recovery mode and manually install grub to the MBR of the USB stick. -Steve Thanks, the recovery mode does list the available drives and the option to select the drive in which to install the MBR. Others responding to this thread claim the installer does this as well. That was definitely not the case with the installer I used, debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso, downloaded February 28th. When I answered no there were no further questions and the installation was completed. Perhaps that is true only of this release. Tom On 3 March 2011 15:19, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. Since the computer was running from the installation disk I could have modified the bios boot sequence for hard drives to move the usb stick to the top of the list but would the installation program look at this information? How would it chose between the first ide hard drive, the first sata hard drive and the usb stick? Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303151921.ga26...@tomgeorge.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimj0a48rgwqza6_xro4ddphtkm6kvtyl+hd9...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110304141531.ga29...@tomgeorge.info
Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?
Another thing I heard about the installer, and I'm not sure which one, because it didn't happen to me when I used the squeeze installer (netinst). I was listening to DistroWatch Weekly, and one of the reporters tried to build a squeeze box, and he mentioned in his review that the entry for the CD was left in sources.list. I think he was using the dvd to build it, as memory serves. I always use the netinst image, and I don't recall seeing this problem since etch. But someone may want to check into it. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.infowrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:18:48PM +, Steven Ayre wrote: Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Boot from the installer in recovery mode and manually install grub to the MBR of the USB stick. -Steve Thanks, the recovery mode does list the available drives and the option to select the drive in which to install the MBR. Others responding to this thread claim the installer does this as well. That was definitely not the case with the installer I used, debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso, downloaded February 28th. When I answered no there were no further questions and the installation was completed. Perhaps that is true only of this release. Tom On 3 March 2011 15:19, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. Since the computer was running from the installation disk I could have modified the bios boot sequence for hard drives to move the usb stick to the top of the list but would the installation program look at this information? How would it chose between the first ide hard drive, the first sata hard drive and the usb stick? Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303151921.ga26...@tomgeorge.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimj0a48rgwqza6_xro4ddphtkm6kvtyl+hd9...@mail.gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110304141531.ga29...@tomgeorge.info
Debian Installer Design Oversight?
I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. Since the computer was running from the installation disk I could have modified the bios boot sequence for hard drives to move the usb stick to the top of the list but would the installation program look at this information? How would it chose between the first ide hard drive, the first sata hard drive and the usb stick? Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303151921.ga26...@tomgeorge.info
Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? That question can be misleading. What is the first disk from the installer's outlook (internal ide, internal sata, internal scsi, external usb1, external esata1...)? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. Since the computer was running from the installation disk I could have modified the bios boot sequence for hard drives to move the usb stick to the top of the list but would the installation program look at this information? How would it chose between the first ide hard drive, the first sata hard drive and the usb stick? Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? This is what I did with my external USB disk: I removed the internal sata disk (this was on a laptop) and installed GRUB -via commands- into the MBR of whatever disk the system thought it was the first disk... as there was only one, failure was not an option. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.03.03.16.35...@gmail.com
Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?
Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Boot from the installer in recovery mode and manually install grub to the MBR of the USB stick. -Steve On 3 March 2011 15:19, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. Since the computer was running from the installation disk I could have modified the bios boot sequence for hard drives to move the usb stick to the top of the list but would the installation program look at this information? How would it chose between the first ide hard drive, the first sata hard drive and the usb stick? Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303151921.ga26...@tomgeorge.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimj0a48rgwqza6_xro4ddphtkm6kvtyl+hd9...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?
On Jo, 03 mar 11, 10:19:21, Thomas H. George wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. I don't remember the exact sequence, but it is definitely possible to install grub in the MBR of a different drive. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?
On Thu 03 Mar 2011 at 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. My distinct recollection is that the installer gives you the opportunity to install GRUB to a chosen destination if you select 'no'. Without starting over what is the best way to make the stick bootable? Have you tried running the installer (in expert mode, say) and going to the boot loader choices. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110303191810.GG7935@desktop
Re: Debian Installer Design Oversight?
Brian wrote: On Thu 03 Mar 2011 at 10:19:21 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and used it to install Debian on a usb stick. All went perfectly until the final question which was to the effect Other operating systems and hard drives have been found on this system. Do you want the mbr written to the first hard drive? My answer was no, of course. I wanted the mbr written to the usb stick and I certainly didn't want to alter the system I was using. So the installation ended without writing the mbr anywhere. My distinct recollection is that the installer gives you the opportunity to install GRUB to a chosen destination if you select 'no'. snip It's a fact. I have done several d-i's of 6.0 and if you say 'no' to the first question of where to install GRUB, the next screen is 'where do you want to install it?' This is with 'install vga=791'. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ikos6e$m4m$1...@dough.gmane.org
