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Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

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On 09/17/2020 03:02 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> writes:
> 
>> The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my
>> peculiar goals.
>> I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition.
>> It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format.
>> I'm working thru https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03,
>> in particular extracting steps for "Manually copying files to the USB
>> stick — the flexible way".
>>
>> What reference am I missing?
> 
> I've installed Debian a couple of times with debootstrap. Or actually
> grml-debootstrap since I had grml on a USB stick for rescue use
> anyways. It does need some kind of Linux environment to run in, not
> necessarily Debian though.
> 

I unsuccessfully tried to us use debootstrap several years ago.
Right now I specifically want to use the normal Debian installer on an 
editable file system.

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Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-09-16 13:30 +0200
  Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 04:10 +0200
  Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2020-09-17 10:10 +0200
    Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-09-17 11:30 +0200
      Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-17 13:50 +0200
      Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-09-18 00:20 +0200
        Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-09-18 12:10 +0200
        Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-09-18 12:30 +0200
          Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 14:30 +0200
            Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-09-18 15:50 +0200
              Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-09-18 17:20 +0200
                Re: Bad homepage reference for xorriso "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-09-20 11:30 +0200
              Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-18 17:30 +0200
              Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 20:10 +0200

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