Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Miles Fidelman (mfidelman@meetinghouse.net):Err, you're not supposed to put the mini.iso on the USB stick, but either the businesscard or netinst images.....the instructions page implies that you can do a netboot, using the .iso found in the /netboot directory - where the only iso is mini.iso - seems like another documentation bugHmmm, from http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html: [8] You can use either a businesscard, a netinst or a full CD image (see Section 4.1, -Y´Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM Sets¡). Be sure to select one that fits. Note that the ´netboot mini.iso¡ image is not usable for this purpose.
I seem to have missed that footnote. Ooops. On the other hand, the very first two paragraphs on the page say:"There are two installation methods possible when booting from USB stick. The first is to install completely from the network. The second is to also copy a CD image onto the USB stick and use that as a source for packages, possibly in combination with a mirror. This second method is the more common.
For the first installation method you'll need to download an installer image from the |netboot| directory (at the location mentioned in Section 4.2.1, “Where to Find Installation Images” <http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s02.html#where-files>) and use the “flexible way” explained below to copy the files to the USB stick."
There's only one installer image in the netboot directory - mini.iso - so those instructions are contradictory.
Clean up contradictions, clean up anything that says to use the alpha1 release and replace it with instructions to use the daily build. Maybe streamline things a bit.I wonder what elese we would need to document, indeed...
Also, I just discovered that there seems to be a bug with the grub-install step of a USB installation, and maybe a problem with installation on RAIDed disks. After succeeding at finding, mounting, and running the netinst.iso (daily build versions), the installer on my sandbox just completed - but... the resulting system isn't bootable. After a little digging, it looks like the installer mounted BOTH my usb stick and one of two raid-ed hard drives as /dev/sda - and really messed things up. I'm busily trying to recreate the situation (after first rebuilding a working system of CD). Once I have some details, I'll send a separate bug report.
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