On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 20:31:36 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: > > > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or > > > is > > > it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media > > > booted? > > Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image > > menuentry 'Try ISO BOOT' { > > set isofile="/Isos-Installers/ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso" > > loopback loop (hd0,11)$isofile > > linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile > > noprompt noeject > > initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz > > } > > ============ > > Notes: > > 1. The image is ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso > > 2. Its in /dev/sda11 In directory Isos-Installers > > 3. Only installers that use casper can do this (not sure it works for > > debian) > The Ubuntu image is a live image. The stanza requires alteration to work > with a Debian live image. > No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst > image or CD-1 to complete successfully. If you say so :-) I find it hard to believe though... [BTW: With ubuntu booted as above I did notice one problem: It crashes/hangs on the partitioning stage even if there's no new partitioning to do. ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/36d2b2a7-c030-4a02-882d-3f0c4623a...@googlegroups.com