On Sun 01 Feb 2015 at 12:01:53 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > > > 1. Boot into your Wheezy install and login as root. > > > > 2. Insert the USB stick. There should be a message on the screen giving > > you a device name. I get sdg. > > > > 3. The netinst is on the first partition, sdg1. Use dmesg to check. I > > have 'sdg: sdg1'. > > > > 4. I'll mount my partition: > > > > mount /dev/sdg1 /mnt > > > > I'm told it is mounted read-only. > > > > 5. Now I'll add the USB stick to /etc/apt/sources.list. > > > > apt-cdrom -m --no-auto-detect -d /mnt add > > > > I'm told the disc is scanned for index files and a new source list is > > written. I can check by looking at /etc/apt/sources.list. Edit the > > file to comment out all lines apart from this one. > > > > 6. apt-get update > > > > 7. apt-get install ppp > > > > 8. Tell us where you went wrong before. :) > > > After `apt-get install ppp', the system requires inserting a CD-ROM. It does > not accept the USB stick. > > The problem is reported here: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745381
That bug report contains the line > 4. sudo apt-cdrom -m -d /media/usb0 add Note that "--no-auto-detect" is missing. The USB flash drive will not be added to sources.list. You *do* have "--no-auto-detect" as part of the command so your drive will be added to sources.list. At least we assume it was because you have not mentioned any problems with steps 1 to 6 above. You have not provided any screen messages which were displayed when you tried 'apt-get install ppp'. I dislike guessing but see no reason why you should not get what I get. First, apt-get says it will install ppp and libcap0.8. When you say 'y' there are screen messages which at the end tell you to insert a disc in the drive 'media/cdrom'. What you do is mount /dev/sdX1 (X is a, b, etc) on media/cdrom. > for Wheezy, but I find it even with Jessie. I think it's important because an > usb stick is much practical than a CD-ROM or a DVD, so it would be important > to > have the possibility of installing Debian with such a device doing without > CD-ROMs and DVDs. Many would agree with this; I 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/20150201131640.gf14...@copernicus.demon.co.uk