Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:50:36AM +1300, philip wrote:
>On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 11:09 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> It would be kinda cool if the installer could deal with multiple DVDs
>> at once:
>> 
>> Allow people with two or more optical drives to put DVD-1 in one of
>> them and DVD-2 in the second (and so on, if necessary/possible) and
>> have the installation “just work” with no swapping of disks in
>> drives.
>> 
>> Then (the really cool part) if that could be extended to allow
>> multiple .iso images (possibly located in a separate partition on the
>> same USB stick we booted the installer from) to be mounted as if they
>> were actual DVD drives and continue as above…
>> 
>> I have no idea at all what it would take to implement this, it’s Just
>> a thought!
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> Rick
>> 
>> PS: Would a wish-list bug against debian-installer be appropriate?
>
>Hi,
>	I have been pushing for a complete archive on a usb stick since
>old stable (forgotten is name) and nothing has happened so far.
>
>In my frustration I have produced my own and the jigdo's can be found
>at http://www.copyleft.co.nz/download.html
>
>The size of the image is ~60 GB and needs to be loaded onto a 64 GB
>stick in the usual way.
>
>I discovered the hard way that debian-cd does not produce a fully
>functional image suitable for loading on a stick and that some changes
>and additions had to be made to the finish-install udeb.
>
>If anyone is interested in the details please contact me.

Hi Phil,

I'd be interested to hear what's wrong there, definitely!

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead