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Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet
Date 2021-01-22 00:20 +0100
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On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 16:20:10 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

> Brian composed on 2021-01-21 11:33 (UTC):
> 
> > David Wright's advice to use the hd-media kernel and initrd is your way
> > forward. The simplest GRUB stanza possible is
> 
> >    menuentry 'Debian 10' {
> >    linux /boot/vmlinuz
> >    initrd /boot/initrd.gz
> >    }
> 
> I'm having trouble thinking of how this could work. Grub needs a way to know where
> to find the correct partition/filesystem. My 2021-01-21 00:06 (UTC-0500) response
> included one example:
> 
> 	search --no-floppy --label --set=root p03res
> 
> It remains for the reader to determine the simplest possible example.
> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html

In the absence of being told the disk and partition, GRUB will use
(hd0,msdos1). The OP did not specify more than one disk and partition.

-- 
Brian.

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installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 05:40 +0100
  Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-21 06:10 +0100
  Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-21 07:00 +0100
  Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-21 12:40 +0100
    Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 18:40 +0100
      Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-21 19:10 +0100
        Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 20:10 +0100
          Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-21 20:30 +0100
          Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-21 21:50 +0100
            Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-01-21 22:00 +0100
              Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 22:30 +0100
            Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-01-21 22:00 +0100
          Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 01:30 +0100
      Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-21 21:30 +0100
        Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 22:10 +0100
          Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-21 22:20 +0100
          Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-21 22:40 +0100
          Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 00:30 +0100
            Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 01:30 +0100
    Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-01-21 22:30 +0100
      Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-22 00:20 +0100
  Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 20:10 +0100
  Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-21 20:30 +0100
  Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-22 00:50 +0100
  Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use  ethernet David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-01-28 17:10 +0100

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