Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Outstanding! Thank you, both Steve and Thomas! Based on Steve's hint I had it mostly right, but the isobybrid business was beyond my capabilities (and would have come to bite me once actually in front of the machine to be installed). I'll report back once I got a chance to try the new

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i forgot to point to http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Isohybrid for an overview of this SYSLINUX feature. You do not need the mentioned post processing programs if xorriso already added an isohybrid MBR to the ISO. But you may beef up your genisoimage ISO if you use the same SYSLINUX

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread mrr
On 20/01/2015 10:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i forgot to point to http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Isohybrid for an overview of this SYSLINUX feature. You do not need the mentioned post processing programs if xorriso already added an isohybrid MBR to the ISO. But you may beef up

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mrr wrote: Please skip reading my message below! Too late. I already did. :)) It is not that bad. E.g. the question When you look inside the usb key, is everything alright? does hit the point. You'd just had to advise a run of fdisk -l as additional means of looking. The lack of a

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
johannes_graum...@web.de wrote: Hello, To fix some configurations needed to install via a serial connection, I would like to edit txt.cfg in isolinux of the stable installation CD. Following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD I try: 1) mkdir /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod 2)

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread mrr
On 19/01/2015 20:30, Johannes Graumann wrote: 3) nano /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod/isolinux/txt.cfg ... I'm not sure about the mean of this step, is it to change the text printed at early boot time (a kind of menu?) ? Anyway, make sure you don't have an error here. 4) genisoimage -o

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: You'll also need to use xorriso rather than genisoimage. Thank you for flying xorriso. :) If you look in the file .disk/mkisofs on the original CD, you'll see the exact command that was used to make the original image, .disk/mkisofs is one of my favorites. So i

How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, To fix some configurations needed to install via a serial connection, I would like to edit txt.cfg in isolinux of the stable installation CD. Following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD I try: 1) mkdir /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod 2) bsdtar -C