Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote:
> > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is
> > it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted?
>
> Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image
>
>
> menuentry 'Try ISO BOOT' {
>
> set isofile="/Isos-Installers/ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"
> loopback loop (hd0,11)$isofile
> linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject
> initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
>
> }
>
>
> ============
>
>
>
> Notes:
> 1. The image is ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
> 2. Its in /dev/sda11 In directory Isos-Installers
> 3. Only installers that use casper can do this (not sure it works for debian)
The Ubuntu image is a live image. The stanza requires alteration to work
with a Debian live image.
No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst
image or CD-1 to complete successfully.
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