Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread Andrew Cater
http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-quick-post-on-how-to-use-jigdo-to.html - was a relatively quick attempt on my part to show how to use jigdo-lite, a mirror and a USB stick. If you use a wired connection to do this, you don't necessarily need non-free firmware. Firmware - see

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread David Wright
By way of introduction, my take on this thread is that the OP wants to repetitively install a system without the fuss of extraneous devices like DVDs and USB. So I'm going to assume that the OP is prepared to make one more conventional installation as a prequel. During this, the OP uses tools

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew Cater wrote: > > The jigdo file which produces a 16GB file for writing to a USB stick is, > > essentially, the first three DVDs plus a bit on one medium. Richard Owlett wrote: > A link to instructions for creating that media? TIA If you have a Debian with internet connection, hop

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/18/2020 07:29 AM, Andrew Cater wrote: Richard (et. al.) If you want an install without any Internet connectivity - you have one really good choice - but you may need someone to provide you with media made on another Debian machine. My policy is to purchase at lease 1 complete DVD set

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread Andrew Cater
Richard (et. al.) If you want an install without any Internet connectivity - you have one really good choice - but you may need someone to provide you with media made on another Debian machine. The jigdo file which produces a 16GB file for writing to a USB stick is, essentially, the first three

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/17/2020 05:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-17 04:25 (UTC-0500): I unsuccessfully tried to us use debootstrap several years ago. Right now I specifically want to use the normal Debian installer on an editable file system. Did you happen to notice what I

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/17/2020 05:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-17 04:25 (UTC-0500): Anssi Saari wrote: Richard Owlett writes: The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my peculiar goals. I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-17 04:25 (UTC-0500): > Anssi Saari wrote: >> Richard Owlett writes: >>> The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my >>> peculiar goals. >>> I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. >>> It must be

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, September 17, 2020 05:25:11 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/17/2020 03:02 AM, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Richard Owlett writes: > >> The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my > >> peculiar goals. > >> I want an executable installer resident on an ext4

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/17/2020 03:02 AM, Anssi Saari wrote: Richard Owlett writes: The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my peculiar goals. I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format. I'm

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Richard Owlett writes: > The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my > peculiar goals. > I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. > It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format. > I'm working thru

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-16 Thread David
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 21:29, Richard Owlett wrote: > I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. > What reference am I missing? https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s04.en.html

Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-16 Thread Richard Owlett
The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my peculiar goals. I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format. I'm working thru https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03, in