Re: finding the right .iso for USB install of Squeeze
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Javier Barroso wrote:
>>
>> Did you try to download Squeeze alpha1 iso cd from
>> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html ? There are
>> links to the correct ftp site:
>> For i386 for example:
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/
>>
>
> yes, but...
>
> 1. looks like these have been updated since my inquiry (when I downloaded
> things, vmlinuz and initrd in the /hd-media directory were dated 7/23, today
> they're dated 9/10 - so they look consistent with the iso images I
> downloaded), but...
>
> 2. looks like I may have uncovered a but in the USB installer, after booting
> itself and starting up, it goes and looks for a .iso image - BUT it looks on
> the hard drives, not the USB stick - and, of course, doesn't find it
>
> Anybody understand the installer well enough to tell me how to tell it to
> look on the USB stick (which seems to be /dev/sdc1 and mounted as
> /hd-media).
Seems like it is a bug [1] , you could ask in debian-boot where they
has a full understanding about the system.
Regards,
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=590678
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