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Re: Installation instructions.

From David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Installation instructions.
Date 2020-12-05 22:20 +0100
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On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 06:41, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 04 Dec 2020 at 22:56:41 +1100, David wrote:

> > 2) And you probably need at least N=2 on an older machine.
> > If there is sufficient RAM, the installer offers to load itself
> > into RAM which frees up the partition where the iso is, so that it can
> > be overwritten by the new install. If the RAM is insufficient this is
> > not possible, so the partition where the iso is must be specified
> > "do not use" because it is mounted and in use by the installer, so
> > the new install must be done into another partition. I would
> > deal with this by converting our installer boot partition to a /boot
> > partition manually after the install is complete and rebooted
> > into the new partition.

> I have been using the hd-media installation method with preseeding
> at priority-high for many years and never encountered this. It turns
> out it was introduced as a consequence of #868900:

>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868900

> The default for iso-scan/copy_iso_to_ram is false, which is why I
> never saw it. Thanks for drawing the option to our attention.

> Choosing "true" doesn't suit me because hd-media is then unmounted.
> All the files I use during an installation, including the critical
> preseed.cfg, then become unavailable.

Thanks again for sharing interesting info about different work
methods.

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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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