Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
....
> When I try to boot from the pendrive, it boots just fine, and the installer
> starts OK. But then, it cannot find the cdrom. Thats OK, because there
> is no cdrom in the drive. But I want it to install from the 'netinst.iso' image.
> But I can't find a way to make it do the install from the iso image.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to make the installer install from the iso image?

Have you tried mounting the image from the console (in the installer)
and then pointing the installer to the local repository?

Yes. I tried that too, but somehow I could not loop mount, and the loop.ko
module could not be found anywhere in /lib/modules.
So, to workaround this problem, I made a directory in the
USB pendrive (from my working Linux PC) and copied the full contents
of the iso image into this directory. Then I tried booting again, but
still the installer is trying to find a cdrom drive and failing.

Now, you said "pointing the installer to the local repository". How exactly
is this done? When the cdrom detection failed, at a console, I found
a directory named '/cdrom' already created (empty). I linked this directory
so that it pointed to the iso contents in my pendrive. Then I attempted
to rerun the earlier step by selecting the option 'install from installer cdrom'
(the wordings might be a bit off but this is the option just next to the
'detect installer cdrom' option). But I am still getting the same error.

Is there any particular way to 'point the installer' to the installer cdrom
contents?

Regards,
Santanu


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