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Re: Installation instructions.

From David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Installation instructions.
Date 2020-12-04 02:30 +0100
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On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:05, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 07:20:19 +1100, David wrote:

> > I think this is an area that possibly needs some investigation or
> > improvement. I would like to know how this ISO search is being done
> > and what is the reason for the failure (and why can't I just specify
> > the ISO I want to use, no compulsory search!). However I've not spent
>
> Preseeding paramters on the linux line may be used to specify where the
> ISO resides:
>
>   shared/ask_device=manual
>   shared/enter_device=/dev/disk/by-label/<LABEL>

Great tip, thank you!

That will give me the ability to find out what kind of errors occur
when I deliberately specify the wrong one, I might learn something
useful from that exercise.

> The response from the OP was
>
>      > vmlinuz and initrd.gz are in the .iso. No need to retrieve again.
>
> This will almost certainly lead to a failure to discover and mount the
> ISO. BootFromISOinHD.jpg (provided by the OP) provides confirmation of
> this assertion.

Yep, knew that for sure. And thanks for your previous tip about
looking for the loop module in the initrd, that was educational
for me and I have put that on my list of interesting things to look
into. It's a long list :D

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Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-02 00:10 +0100
  Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-02 03:20 +0100
    Re: Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-02 22:00 +0100
      Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-02 22:20 +0100
      Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-02 23:30 +0100
        Re: Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-03 17:40 +0100
          Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-03 20:30 +0100
          Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 21:30 +0100
            Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-04 00:10 +0100
              Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 02:30 +0100
            Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 10:10 +0100
              Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 13:00 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-04 22:20 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 23:40 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-05 03:20 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-06 16:40 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-10 01:10 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-05 16:00 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-05 20:50 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-05 22:20 +0100
              Re: Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-05 21:00 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-05 21:40 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-05 22:00 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-05 22:10 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2020-12-05 22:40 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-06 01:20 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-06 01:20 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-06 01:40 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-06 06:10 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-06 19:30 +0100
                Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-05 21:40 +0100
            Re: Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-05 22:10 +0100
              Re: Installation instructions. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-05 22:20 +0100
      Re: Installation instructions. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 10:00 +0100
  Re: Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-02 20:00 +0100
    Re (2): Installation instructions. peter@easthope.ca - 2020-12-02 22:40 +0100
      Re: Re (2): Installation instructions. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-03 00:10 +0100
  Re: Installation instructions. John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2020-12-02 23:00 +0100

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