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Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso

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On Thu 05 May 2016 at 09:47:20 (-0400), Ralph Sanchez wrote:
> Ok. First things first, I have been able to setup a new usb for netinst.
> But, for future reference on this issue...
> 
> Yes, this happens before setting up mirrors
> 
> Also, trying to use the installer from boot menu instead of within live
> image gave the same type of error, just much faster.
> 
> As far as contents of the sources.list, the deb cdrom line that commonly
> needs commented out was not there. Sources.list.d was empty.
> 
> My only solution was to get netinst.iso, and then run the # cp debian.iso
> /dev/sdX command followed by # sync, which was highly finicky as it did not
> want to run correctly or recognize host, but it did eventually work.

I hadn't realised you had the iso as a file on the stick rather than
as the stick. Presumably you could have loop-mounted the iso rather
than having to copy it to drive sdX.

Typically the installer tries in turn to mount any partitions it can
find onto /media/cdrom. You can see this process going on in the logs
scrolling by on VC4. Thus it would find sdX by itself, whereas it
would need telling if the partition was squirrelled away in a file.

> On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:
> 
> > * Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com <javascript:;>> [2016-05-05 03:17
> > -0400]:
> >
> > > Update: like i said, i am running from the install from within the Live
> > > boot from usb. I configured network, partitioning, etc and got to
> > > installing system. Bar is about 95 percent full and says retreiving file
> > 1
> > > of 2 when it switches to a windows saying ::    /media/cdrom/:Please
> > insert
> > > the disc labeled: 'Debian GNU/Linux 8 _jessie_-Official Snapshot amd64
> > > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20160402-2159' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press
> > > enter.

Cheers,
David.

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Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 03:00 +0200
  Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-05 03:40 +0200
    Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 04:20 +0200
      Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 09:20 +0200
        Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 09:30 +0200
          Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 10:20 +0200
          Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-05 11:50 +0200
        Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> - 2016-05-05 14:20 +0200
          Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 15:50 +0200
            Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 16:10 +0200
            Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-05 19:10 +0200
              Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso Ralph Sanchez <rwsanchez3@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 21:00 +0200

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