Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
On 13/09/10 08:04, Miles Fidelman wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are links to the correct ftp site: For i386 for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/ yes, but... 1. looks like these have been updated since my inquiry (when I downloaded things, vmlinuz and initrd in the /hd-media directory were dated 7/23, today they're dated 9/10 - so they look consistent with the iso images I downloaded), but... 2. looks like I may have uncovered a but in the USB installer, after booting itself and starting up, it goes and looks for a .iso image - BUT it looks on the hard drives, not the USB stick - and, of course, doesn't find it Anybody understand the installer well enough to tell me how to tell it to look on the USB stick (which seems to be /dev/sdc1 and mounted as /hd-media). Thanks, Miles If all else fails try INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/whatever as an install parameter. I have just tested the install (with the net iso) - I had no problem - takes two passes to find the iso on /dev/sda1 though... Cheers -- 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/4c8dc051.7020...@gmail.com
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/09/10 08:04, Miles Fidelman wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are links to the correct ftp site: yes, but... 1. looks like these have been updated since my inquiry (when I downloaded things, vmlinuz and initrd in the /hd-media directory were dated 7/23, today they're dated 9/10 - so they look consistent with the iso images I downloaded), but... 2. looks like I may have uncovered a but in the USB installer, after booting itself and starting up, it goes and looks for a .iso image - BUT it looks on the hard drives, not the USB stick - and, of course, Did the install actually fail to find the iso? If you copy the iso to the hard drive will the installer find it then?? When it was only on the usb stick (/dev/sdc1, mounted as /hd-media) it did not find the iso. When I copied the iso to both / and /boot on my hard drive: - on the first pass, the installer didn't find it - on the deep search pass it reported while one or more possible iso images were found, they did not look like valid installer iso images This time I was using both the installer and mini.iso from the current build (today). I've reported all this as a bug. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Infnord practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- 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/4c8e447a.5030...@meetinghouse.net
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
Scott Ferguson wrote: If all else fails try INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/whatever as an install parameter. Any suggestion on where to set this? On startup, the USB installer goes right to language selection - no splash screen or other opportunity to adjust the invocation. I tried adding it to syslinux.cfg (append INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1) but that doesn't seem to work. Exiting to shell reports that the installer thinks INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/ - AND now its mounted /dev/sda1 as /dev/hd-media - it doesn't see the stick at all -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Infnord practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- 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/4c8e4871.7060...@meetinghouse.net
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: If all else fails try INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/whatever as an install parameter. Any suggestion on where to set this? On startup, the USB installer goes right to language selection - no splash screen or other opportunity to adjust the invocation. I tried adding it to syslinux.cfg (append INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1) but that doesn't seem to work. Exiting to shell reports that the installer thinks INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/ - AND now its mounted /dev/sda1 as /dev/hd-media - it doesn't see the stick at all ooops - I had a typo in syslinux.cfg - it actually did say /dev/ - so the boot picked up the environment variable just fixed this and retried now, after starting the installer, and going through language selection, it still can't find the .iso, but - exiting to shell reports that INSTALL_MEDIA_DEV=/dev/sdc1, but - it hasn't mounted /dev/sdc1, not even as /hd-media - instead it's mounted /dev/sda1 as /hd-media, and even though there's a copy of mini.iso in there, it doesn't find it -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Infnord practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- 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/4c8e4a8d.1040...@meetinghouse.net
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze - update
For those following this, it turns out that building a USB stick, using the daily build netinst ISO seems to work. Contrary to what might be suggested by the documentation pages: 1. DON'T build with the alpha1 release 2. the .iso in /netboot (mini.iso) doesn't work - you have to use the netinst .iso Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Infnord practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- 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/4c8e6176.6050...@meetinghouse.net
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
Hi, On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Hi Folks, I've been trying to install squeeze (testing) onto a sandbox machine, using a USB key, and I keep running into (what I think) is a mismatch between the boot kernel and the .iso kernel. As far as I can tell, the latest version of the USB installer is dated 7/23, and the indicated web site does not have a similarly dated CD-ROM .iso. Elsewhere, the recommendation is to use the alpha1 RC image - but putting that on the USB key yields a can't find kernel modules error during install. Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are links to the correct ftp site: For i386 for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/ With both I guess kernel modules will be found Regards, -- 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/aanlktikj7il1+agesumr8ff09q9uzddv9nuk49i7v...@mail.gmail.com
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
Javier Barroso wrote: Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are links to the correct ftp site: For i386 for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/ yes, but... 1. looks like these have been updated since my inquiry (when I downloaded things, vmlinuz and initrd in the /hd-media directory were dated 7/23, today they're dated 9/10 - so they look consistent with the iso images I downloaded), but... 2. looks like I may have uncovered a but in the USB installer, after booting itself and starting up, it goes and looks for a .iso image - BUT it looks on the hard drives, not the USB stick - and, of course, doesn't find it Anybody understand the installer well enough to tell me how to tell it to look on the USB stick (which seems to be /dev/sdc1 and mounted as /hd-media). Thanks, Miles -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Infnord practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- 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/4c8d4e7c.7030...@meetinghouse.net
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are links to the correct ftp site: For i386 for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/ yes, but... 1. looks like these have been updated since my inquiry (when I downloaded things, vmlinuz and initrd in the /hd-media directory were dated 7/23, today they're dated 9/10 - so they look consistent with the iso images I downloaded), but... 2. looks like I may have uncovered a but in the USB installer, after booting itself and starting up, it goes and looks for a .iso image - BUT it looks on the hard drives, not the USB stick - and, of course, doesn't find it Anybody understand the installer well enough to tell me how to tell it to look on the USB stick (which seems to be /dev/sdc1 and mounted as /hd-media). Seems like it is a bug [1] , you could ask in debian-boot where they has a full understanding about the system. Regards, [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590678 -- 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/aanlktikfsrpp7g-tpzm+kqzcxgofykoaj-hp+aoad...@mail.gmail.com
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
Javier Barroso wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are links to the correct ftp site: For i386 for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/ yes, but... 1. looks like these have been updated since my inquiry (when I downloaded things, vmlinuz and initrd in the /hd-media directory were dated 7/23, today they're dated 9/10 - so they look consistent with the iso images I downloaded), but... 2. looks like I may have uncovered a but in the USB installer, after booting itself and starting up, it goes and looks for a .iso image - BUT it looks on the hard drives, not the USB stick - and, of course, doesn't find it Anybody understand the installer well enough to tell me how to tell it to look on the USB stick (which seems to be /dev/sdc1 and mounted as /hd-media). Seems like it is a bug [1] , you could ask in debian-boot where they has a full understanding about the system. Ahhh... so there is a list for this! Thanks! p.s., I did file a bug report. -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Infnord practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- 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/4c8d5bbd.2000...@meetinghouse.net
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
On 13/09/10 08:04, Miles Fidelman wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are links to the correct ftp site: For i386 for example: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/ yes, but... 1. looks like these have been updated since my inquiry (when I downloaded things, vmlinuz and initrd in the /hd-media directory were dated 7/23, today they're dated 9/10 - so they look consistent with the iso images I downloaded), but... 2. looks like I may have uncovered a but in the USB installer, after booting itself and starting up, it goes and looks for a .iso image - BUT it looks on the hard drives, not the USB stick - and, of course, doesn't find it Anybody understand the installer well enough to tell me how to tell it to look on the USB stick (which seems to be /dev/sdc1 and mounted as /hd-media). Thanks, Miles You shouldn't need to tell the installer anything - it's a little confusing because it appears to not find the iso file on the usb key. Bear with it, the installer does find it eventually - it seems to check drive devices before cycling back through the drive list checking partitions on the devices. Did the install actually fail to find the iso? If you copy the iso to the hard drive will the installer find it then?? Cheers -- 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/4c8c401c.80...@gmail.com
finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
Hi Folks, I've been trying to install squeeze (testing) onto a sandbox machine, using a USB key, and I keep running into (what I think) is a mismatch between the boot kernel and the .iso kernel. As far as I can tell, the latest version of the USB installer is dated 7/23, and the indicated web site does not have a similarly dated CD-ROM .iso. Elsewhere, the recommendation is to use the alpha1 RC image - but putting that on the USB key yields a can't find kernel modules error during install. I've also tried the netinst mini-iso image, found in the same place as the USB installer - but that gives the same error message. Any suggestions as to where I might find a consistent set of pieces to achieve USB install (or is there a better list to query)? Thanks, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. Infnord practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- 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/4c8b95c7.1040...@meetinghouse.net
Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
On 9/11/2010 8:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [stuff] Take a look at GRUB4DOS, which has a way to boot ISOs. Or, use USBCreator. I think your /best/ bet though is going to be using GRUB4DOS. -- Morgan Gangwere Why? Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes messages unreadable. Top-Posting is evil. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
