Re: Re: Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb
Hey Brian,
> I did this, although usually I extract only the kernel and the initrd.
In that case you need an initrd with the loop module added, I tried to
keep this as simple as possible.
> I didn't expect this to work and indeed it didn't. My understanding is
> that an ext* module is not available in the installer at this stage of
> the install. 'cat /proc/filesystems' shows only the expected vfat and
> iso9660 filesystems.
Of course you're right, I didn't think of that :(
As I said, I had hoped to avoid having to build a custom initrd, but in
this case there's no way around that.
@everyone not using a vfat partition:
I have a readymade initrd with support for loop, ext*, reiser and xfs
uploaded here: http://netload.in/dateirtpHKyDfSS/initrd.gz.htm
(md5sum is 7bafb08e52f5335a58dd2868a3e77066)
you need to replace your debian_iso/install.amd/initrd.gz with this one.
Before you can mount i.e. an ext4 filesystem, you need to
# modprobe ext4
That should be it.
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If you don't trust me, you can create your own using the method I
described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/05/msg00395.html
You will need most of these:
echo './lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/xfs
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext3
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext4
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd2
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/reiserfs
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/block/loop.ko
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/lib
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/lib/crc16.ko'|cpio -o -H newc -A -F initrd
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