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Re: Towards a customized netinst

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Thomas Schmitt's post of 09/21/2017 09:47 AM prompted me to rephrase my 
initial post of this sub-thread.


My initial goal is a "thingy" which a human at a terminal would not 
notice any operational difference from netinst.iso on a CD.
This "thingy" would:
   1. *NOT* have any internal assumption of being ISO9660 compliant.
      1a. be recognizable and boot-able by Grub2.
        {Re-reading <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD>
         after reading
< 
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/MANIFEST>
         suggested at least one reason I could not boot the resulting
         partition - I needed an appropriate set of initrd/vmlinuz.

         Browsing some Wiki pages indicates I need to read MORE about the
         boot process and os-prober.}
   2. intrinsically assume it will be resident on an ext2 device.

I had been attempting to follow the pattern of "Debian-Installer: How to 
modify an existing CD image - Create copy of the image" 
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD#Create_copy_of_the_image> 
.

Using "tar" instead of "bsdtar" giving an error message that "This does 
not look like a tar archive" was motivation to use xorriso. As Thomas 
Schmitt has pointed out, there are other means. Using it is a better map 
to to my mental image while preventing my mental image clashing to badly 
with reality.

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Installing the installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-14 15:50 +0200
  Re: Installing the installer "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-14 17:00 +0200
    Re: Installing the installer Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-19 16:00 +0200
      Re: Installing the installer "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-19 17:20 +0200
        Re: Installing the installer Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-09-19 21:10 +0200
          Re: Installing the installer "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-19 22:20 +0200
      A custom installer - was [Installing the installer] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-23 17:50 +0200
        Re: A custom installer - was [Installing the installer] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-24 15:50 +0200
  Re: Installing the installer Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2017-09-15 05:10 +0200
  Towards a customized netinst {a rephrasing of "Installing the  installer"} Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-21 15:10 +0200
    Re: Towards a customized netinst "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-21 16:50 +0200
      Re: Towards a customized netinst Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-09-22 16:10 +0200

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