Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly
On Sun 08 Sep 2019 at 13:26:16 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 08 September 2019 12:49:14 Curt wrote:
> > On 2019-09-08, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > >> > What does this do that the iso doesn't, and note it takes a
> > >> > windows machine to follow those instructions.
> > >>
> > >> Eh? How do you work that out?
> > >
> > > I won't, theres always another way to skin that cat. ;-) Time, if I
> > > have it, will sort that out.
> >
> > He means how did you derive that erroneous notion from the
> > 'README.concatenateable_images,' which says:
> >
> > To create a complete image from the two parts on Linux systems, you
> > can use zcat as follows:
> >
> > zcat firmware.<board_name>.img.gz partition.img.gz >
> > complete_image.img
>
> zcat is not a cmnd I use, so I didn't recognize it.
Perhaps you've been brainwashed by the "pointless use of cat" crowd :)
> Besides, it more of
> the zero info names that one isn't going to remember a week down the log
> when one trips over partition.img.gz and wonders why it was that I
> downloaded it.
Easily fixed by placing them in directories with meaningful names,
as in:
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/amd64/initrd.gz (2019-07-01 30581523)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/amd64/linux (2019-07-01 5221616)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/amd64/SHA256SUMS (2019-07-01 75295)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/i386/initrd.gz (2019-07-01 26665346)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/i386/linux (2019-07-01 4140688)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/i386/SHA256SUMS (2019-07-01 73988)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/amd64/firmware-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso (2019-07-06 393216000)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS (2019-07-06 332)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS.sign (2019-07-06 833)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/i386/firmware-10.0.0-i386-netinst.iso (2019-07-06 488636416)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS (2019-07-06 330)
debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2019-07-06 833)
debian/iso/jessie/8.7.1/netinst/i386/firmware-8.7.1-i386-netinst.iso (2017-01-16 351272960)
debian/iso/jessie/8.7.1/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS (2017-01-17 162)
debian/iso/jessie/8.7.1/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2017-01-17 819)
debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/amd64/debian-live-9.1.0-amd64-lxde+nonfree.iso (2017-07-22 2346844160)
debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/amd64/SHA512SUMS (2017-07-23 4180)
debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/amd64/SHA512SUMS.sign (2017-07-23 833)
debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/i386/debian-live-9.1.0-i386-lxde+nonfree.iso (2017-07-23 2394816512)
debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/i386/SHA512SUMS (2017-07-23 4156)
debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2017-07-23 833)
debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/amd64/firmware-9.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso (2018-07-14 341835776)
debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS (2018-07-14 163)
debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS.sign (2018-07-14 833)
debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/i386/firmware-9.5.0-i386-netinst.iso (2018-07-14 432013312)
debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS (2018-07-14 162)
debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2018-07-14 833)
Cheers,
David.
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