On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:46:44, Lee Winter wrote: > It appears to me that it should be possible to run the Debian Installer > just as a program and a set of package files rather than as a bootable > image containing both. So, given a bootable image in .ISO or .img format, > how can the image be transformed into an executable program and associated > package files that reside on a typical (HDD) file system? It seems like you're looking for debootstrap, but it might be better to explain what you're trying to achieve. > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or > is it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media > booted? For example, several boot loaders allow a kind of chainload from > their own boot sector to the boot sector of an ISO or img file. But the > booted image has to be able to find itself in order to continue the > process. Can debian install images find themselves? I think this should work. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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