Re: method for booting the talking network installation with non-free firmware from the hard drive using grub

[Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, Looking at the installation manual the network installation files 
will probably work better.  The issue is that all of my network cards 
require non-free firmware to load is there a version of the GTK network 
boot files that contain this firmware?  With grub in the default 
configuration can you type in a label to launch it or would I need to 
remember where it is in the menu and do the menus wrap around or can you 
enter in the number of the item to boot?  Nick Gawronski

On 8/30/2021 3:33 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Nick Gawronski, le lun. 30 août 2021 07:22:01 -0500, a ecrit:
> > What would I need to do after I made a copy of the initial ramdisk image
> > gzip file and the kernel to /boot to run the talking version of the
> > debian-installer
> Simply a grub entry that runs
>
> linux /the/kernel speakup.synth=soft
> initrd /the/initrd.gz
>
> > I don't have another partition to use to dd the iso file to?
> As I mentioned, telling the installer where the iso image is, if not in
> a partition, will be complex.
>
> You'll thus probably rather want to use the netboot files:
>
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/gtk/debian-installer/amd64/
>
> whose initrd will just download all the rest from the Internet.
>
> >    Reading the debian installation manuals there are no directions on
> > internally running portions of the installer like what I am trying to do
> Indeed, we cannot document everything, and in particular tinkering with
> the internals of the installer. The installation manual is already
> long enough that a lot of people seem not to tend to have a look at it
> nowadays...
>
> Samuel