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Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash drive" - HOW?

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Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2016, 09:40:31 CEST schrieb Richard Owlett:
> If some of this sounds familiar, I have asked related questions
> in the past.
> [I do have copies of previous posts&replies for reference.
>   I've re-read most but may have missed reading some due to how I
> sorted them.]
> I think I can give a better description of what I wish to accomplish.
> The laptop I used for previous experiment is now classed as
> unreliable, which may have been cause of some previous problems.
> I have a healthy desktop machine now.
> 
> Due to limited bandwidth *EVERYTHING SHALL* be done from a
> physical set of purchased DVD's [Jessie 8.6].
> 
> I explicitly want a flash drive that functions as an install medium.
> I DO NOT wish to install to the flash drive (one person called
> that 'Debian to Go']
> It shall be bootable
> It shall be able to install Debian on any machine which can boot
> from a USB device.
> It shall have a repository equivalent to the contents on all 13
> DVD's.
> It shall have multiple multiple editable preseed.cfg files.
> 
> I envision a file structure of
> /dev/sdX
> 	/alpha		optional partition for GRUB or LILO
> 	/beta		bootable installer - essentially DVD 1 of 13
> 	/gamma		repository - contents of DVD 2 -> DVD 13
> 	/delta		collection of preseed.cfg files
> 
> Comments/suggestions?
> TIA
So it looks like you want to do many installations and often. Maybe you might 
want to look at Fully Automatical Installatio (FAI). You can create an ISO for 
every architecture, then put in on the USB-drive. I suggest "XBOOT" for this, 
it is a multiboot tool.

As you can preconfigure everything, you can point the installer iso's to the 
repo on your usb drive.

On the other hand, IMO, an image server might be more usefull. Take a look at 
"clonezilla" project, especially "cloinezilla se".

Just my ideas.....

Happy hacking1

Hans

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From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash drive" -  HOW? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-17 16:50 +0200
  Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash drive" - HOW? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-10-17 17:00 +0200
    Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-17 17:30 +0200
      Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-17 21:10 +0200
  Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-17 17:30 +0200
    Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-17 17:40 +0200
      Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-10-17 20:10 +0200
        Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-17 21:40 +0200
          Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash drive" - HOW? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 12:50 +0100
            Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-11-02 17:00 +0100
            RE: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> - 2016-11-03 17:40 +0100
              Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash drive" - HOW? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 18:20 +0100
      Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-22 21:00 +0200
        Re: From "physical install DVD's" to "special install USB flash  drive" - HOW? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-22 21:40 +0200

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