Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote:
> > > 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?
> > Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image
> > menuentry 'Try ISO BOOT' {
> > set isofile="/Isos-Installers/ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"
> > loopback loop (hd0,11)$isofile
> > linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile noprompt noeject
> > initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
> > }
> > ============
> > Notes:
> > 1. The image is ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
> > 2. Its in /dev/sda11 In directory Isos-Installers
> > 3. Only installers that use casper can do this (not sure it works for debian)
> The Ubuntu image is a live image. The stanza requires alteration to work
> with a Debian live image.
> No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst
> image or CD-1 to complete successfully.
If you say so :-)
I find it hard to believe though...
[BTW: With ubuntu booted as above I did notice one problem:
It crashes/hangs on the partitioning stage even if there's
no new partitioning to do.
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