Can't add pendrive stick as installation media (was: Network install)
Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.medina@gmail.com):
> http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/
>
> I download the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and put it onto pendrive
> stick, then start the installation trough the Debian Installer. Everything
> goes fine all the way through the installer menu until finishing the install
> by booting into the new system.
>
> At that point, I need installing ppp, because, once installed ppp, I'll be
> able to connect to internet and download the remaining packages. I do:
>
> # aptitude install ppp
>
> The system tells me to insert the debian CD-ROM, because it `doesn't know'
> that I have no CD-ROM at all, but instead a pendrive stick. I insert the
> pendrive stick with debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso on it, but the system
> insists on wanting a CD-ROM.
>
> So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet.
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
> Quoting Brian (ad44@cityscape.co.uk):
>> On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 15:00:17 -0600, David Wright wrote:
>>
>> > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.medina@gmail.com):
>> > >
>> > > So I can't install ppp and so I won't be able to connect to internet.
>> >
>> > Insert the pendrive, and see where it's mounted (from the logs, console
>> > etc.)
>> >
>> > mount -t auto /dev/sdZ1 /mnt
>> >
>> > where Z is b, c, d as appropriate
>> >
>> > apt-cdrom -d=/mnt add
>>
>> About a year ago I spent an afternoon investigating why this didn't work
>> for me. Locating the notes I made would take time.
>
> Ditto. Yes, you also need to stop it unmounting and so on. Thus
>
> apt-cdrom -d /mnt --no-auto-detect -m add
>
> will do it, where "it" is to stick
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 <datetime>]/ jessie main
>
> in /etc/apt/sources.list and check the contents.
Nothing, and nothing. I also tried with Jessie, testing, but it seems there's
no way to make Debian add pendrive sticks as installation media. sources.lists
is not at all modified, and the pendrive stick is not accepted as installation
media: the system insists on requiring a CD-ROM.
Rodolfo
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