Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-16 Thread MaTa
2009/7/15 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org MaTa, le Wed 15 Jul 2009 22:40:28 +0200, a écrit : 2009/7/15 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org I have installed Debian in SunFire V120 (Sparc maquine with RJ-45 connector serial console) through hyperterminal with the standard

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Thu 16 Jul 2009 08:13:24 +0200, a écrit : • live-magic • debian-cd • simple-cdd • live-helper I don't want to rebuild a whole CD from scratch, I want to just patch an existing debian installer image that I have downloaded (our bought and ripped), doing exactly what you

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Sat 11 Jul 2009 18:21:16 +0200, a écrit : The PC have a RJ-45 connector? Can be that a net plug is a serial console too. It could not have. My question is about rs-232 console. I have installed Debian in SunFire V120 (Sparc maquine with RJ-45 connector serial console) through

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-15 Thread MaTa
2009/7/15 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org MaTa, le Sat 11 Jul 2009 18:21:16 +0200, a écrit : The PC have a RJ-45 connector? Can be that a net plug is a serial console too. It could not have. My question is about rs-232 console. I have installed Debian in SunFire V120 (Sparc

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Wed 15 Jul 2009 22:40:28 +0200, a écrit : 2009/7/15 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org I have installed Debian in SunFire V120 (Sparc maquine with RJ-45 connector serial console) through hyperterminal with the standard Debian installation CD A possible

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-11 Thread MaTa
I'm sorry if I'm not an expert, but you can try with *DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text* boot parameter, to install using the serial port. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s02.html.en 2009/7/11 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org Vincent Danjean, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 11:55:08 +0200, a écrit :

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
MaTa, le Sat 11 Jul 2009 15:39:06 +0200, a écrit : I'm sorry if I'm not an expert, but you can try with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text boot parameter, to install using the serial port. The question is: how do you type this with a PC that has no screen or keyboard, just a USB plug? Samuel -- To

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-11 Thread MaTa
Sorry, I don't understood the question. The PC have a RJ-45 connector? Can be that a net plug is a serial console too. I have installed Debian in SunFire V120 (Sparc maquine with RJ-45 connector serial console) through hyperterminal with the standard Debian installation CD A possible alternate

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vincent Danjean, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 11:55:08 +0200, a écrit : Being able to change the lilo/grub/syslinux... configuration file would also be interesting. Well, I'm not sure such modifications would be easy to automate. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vincent Danjean, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 11:55:08 +0200, a écrit : I needed it to boot on a PC with no screen. It had only a terminal (an old french Minitel 1B) on its serial line. I did it by using the USB key boot methods and changing the correct files (I do not remember exactly what I did).

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Klaus Knopper, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 19:52:20 +0200, a écrit : [Start of] discussion: Changes to isolinux.cfg inside a .iso image must not exceed or even change the space allocated by the file inside the image. Yes, and that makes things quite ugly. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, le Mon 06 Jul 2009 18:01:31 +0200, a écrit : On Jul 06, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Some a11y people asked how to very easily remaster ISOs so as to append parameters to the kernel command line, to e.g. setup the braille configuration once for good before

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-06 Thread Vincent Danjean
Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Some a11y people asked how to very easily remaster ISOs so as to append parameters to the kernel command line, Being able to change the lilo/grub/syslinux... configuration file would also be interesting. I needed it to boot on a PC with no screen. It had only a

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-06 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Sunday 05 July 2009 19:42:19 Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Some a11y people asked how to very easily remaster ISOs so as to append parameters to the kernel command line, to e.g. setup the braille configuration once for good before burning a CD. I've prepared a small crude script to do

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 06, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Some a11y people asked how to very easily remaster ISOs so as to append parameters to the kernel command line, to e.g. setup the braille configuration once for good before burning a CD. I've prepared a small crude script to do that on

Re: remastering ISOs to append boot options

2009-07-06 Thread Klaus Knopper
Hello, On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:46:01AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2009 19:42:19 Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Some a11y people asked how to very easily remaster ISOs so as to append parameters to the kernel command line, to e.g. setup the braille configuration