Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer
On 09/18/2020 07:29 AM, Andrew Cater wrote:
Richard (et. al.)
If you want an install without any Internet connectivity - you have one
really good choice - but you may need someone to provide you with media
made on another Debian machine.
My policy is to purchase at lease 1 complete DVD set of each Debian
release (typically not the initial release). I have several machines,
with one totally isolated from all others and dedicated to experiments.
A link to instructions for creating that media? TIA
The jigdo file which produces a 16GB file for writing to a USB stick is,
essentially, the first three DVDs plus a bit on one medium. It's directly
bootable on a machine that supports boot from USB. it will boot in legacy
(non-UEFI) and UEFI mode. It's ideal. The one thing it doesn't contain is
firmware - but that can be written to another USB stick.One small, cheap,
old stick, one newer stick and some internet connectivity _somewhere_ and
you can do it.
Sounds like it was designed for someone more on the edge than I. I
rarely need anything not on DVD1.
That way, everything is met. I have asked Sledge if he would be prepared to
produce _another_ non-free image in 16GB size but he replied that it wasn't
particularly worth the increased bother and storage size of maintaining the
16GB file for every point release when it could readily be regenerated.
I *agree*. What is needed is a set of instructions suitable for a
minimally competent Linux user.
The alternatives are the BluRay media (or possibly the debian-edu media)
both of which are around the same size.
This isn't rocket science - but yours is a distinct edge case.
Before I retired, several employers found that a valuable trait.
Installs to
a partition and using the partition to bootstrap a second install are
likely to be tested by only one person - yourself - and you would probably
need to submit very detailed bug reports and a significantly compelling use
case to achieve major changes.
Any bug reports would likely be against documentation rather than
against the software itself.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy C
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 10:21 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
On 09/17/2020 05:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Owlett composed on 2020-09-17 04:25 (UTC-0500):
I unsuccessfully tried to us use debootstrap several years ago.
Right now I specifically want to use the normal Debian installer on an
editable file system.
Did you happen to notice what I wrote in
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/09/msg00441.html>?
Yes.
I think I have a counter example {haven't verified no operator error
involved} but I've been working on another fundamental issue --
understanding the installer.
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