Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2015-07-09 Thread philip
I have a solution that works well. For it to be incorporated into stretch a new udeb would be needed, an extra option added to the installation menu, and two simple additions to debian-cd's CONF.sh. The modifications to CONF.sh From export i386_MKISOFS_OPTS=-as mkisofs -r -checksum_algorithm_iso

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-27 Thread Philip Charles
I have a USB stick that is used for installing Wheezy and which is recognised on reboot. Instead of writing DVD1 to the stick I do the following: 1. Have a FAT16 partition spanning the whole stick. Format as vfat. 2. Install GRUB in the MBR and copy the hd-media vmlinuz and initrd.gz

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-27 Thread Philip Charles
Brian On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 11:00 +, Brian Potkin wrote: Hello Philip, I'm assuming that since you did not CC the bug that this is intended to be a private mail. A mistake on my part. I originally did something like this with the first eight CD images and used apt-cdrom. The user

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-27 Thread Brian Potkin
Hello Philip, I'm assuming that since you did not CC the bug that this is intended to be a private mail. On Wed 26 Nov 2014 at 18:22:52 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: I have a USB stick that is used for installing Wheezy and which is recognised on reboot. Instead of writing DVD1 to the

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-26 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 03:40:06PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Apt guys, how much effort would it be to add an extra package source (derived from cdrom), called apt-usb or similar? The apt-cdrom code is practically unmaintained, so if anyone is really interested in any improvements in that

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-26 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 15:50 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: ** The best approach might be to move apt-cdrom to apt-transport-cdrom (it is currently a bit entangled with other code, but removing this is not the worst idea anyhow) and finding maintainer(s) for it. These can probably come

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-25 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 23:32 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: normal After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot. Boot method: usb stick Image version: beta 2 installer amd64 DVD1 (copied to usb stick) Date: Oct

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:11:48PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 23:32 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: normal After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot. Boot method: usb stick Image version:

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-11-25 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 25 Nov 2014 at 22:11:48 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 23:32 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: normal After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot. Boot method: usb stick Image

Bug#764587: installation-reports: After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot.

2014-10-09 Thread Philip Charles
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal After successful installation from usb stick the stick is not recognised on reboot. Boot method: usb stick Image version: beta 2 installer amd64 DVD1 (copied to usb stick) Date: Oct 2014 Machine: Self built Partitions: My test HDD. Base System