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Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer



Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> writes:

> The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my
> peculiar goals.
> I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition.
> It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format.
> I'm working thru https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03,
> in particular extracting steps for "Manually copying files to the USB
> stick — the flexible way".
>
> What reference am I missing?

I've installed Debian a couple of times with debootstrap. Or actually
grml-debootstrap since I had grml on a USB stick for rescue use
anyways. It does need some kind of Linux environment to run in, not
necessarily Debian though.


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