Bug#590568: debian-installer: hd-media boot.img.gz's installer cannot find mini.iso

[Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Hi.

I've tried to follow instructions in http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch04s03.html.en to create a bootable USB disk.

What I've done is reuse the files from : http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz and just use a basic syslinux config :
  default linux
  append initrd=initrd.gz
to get a bootable USB disk of maximum size that indeed will boot an installer.

However, whenever inside the installer, the netinst .iso file cannot be found when it searches the disks to find an installable iso image.

The iso is named mini.iso (just as downloaded from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/) and sits inside the USB key's first (and only) VFAT partition (which mounts fine from /dev/sdb1 to /hd-media from a shell started inside the installer).

Is there a requirement on a special name for iso image files ?

Thanks in advance


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash