Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed
On 31 Mar 2024 11:18 +0200, from debianlist@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de (DdB):
> As i have no working
> CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for
> bookworm onto an lvm-LV. Using grub, i can manually boot from that ISO
> and see the first installer screens. But after asking some questions,
> the installer wants to mount the external media (ISO), and does not find
> it on sd[a-z], then aborts.
I would suggest to write the _same_ ISO file to a USB stick of
sufficient size, and leave the USB stick connected while running the
installer. The installer should detect the USB stick and use that as
the source for installation, regardless of how you booted into the
installer.
As long as both media contain the same data, this should be completely
unproblematic.
Think of it as a variation of, in the old days, booting the installer
from a floppy (on a system that couldn't boot from CD) but actually
installing from a CD.
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