Bug#1035476: debian-installer: Apt asks for cdrom volume after installed from nonremovable USB volume
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20230427
Severity: minor
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: budheal508@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Jigdo built the DLBD volumes in the normal fashion.
dd copied the .iso files into 64GB USB sticks.
I installed using volume 1. D-I did not ask for volume 2 to be inserted.
I booted and asked apt to install chromium (just an example; I don't use it).
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
apt-get asked for a media change.
An inspection shows sources.listed (bare of any internet repositories, which seems odd) starts with cdrom:
* What was the outcome of this action?
Even a linux tyro like me can figure how to edit sources.list. This time the lack of Inrelease and Release file didn't stop me. Copy the .iso files, mount them, tell apt allow-insecure=yes, tell it again (Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories "true"; in 00trustcdrom), don't let all the warning messages to stop me, and it appears to work.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I think treating this install as a minimal net (CD) would work better. That is, I tried that once during the bookworm testing, and files not in the installer volume are then downloaded.
And thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
-- no debconf information
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