Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-17 Thread George Danchev
Joey Hess writes: Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly in the same invocation of genisoimage,

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-17 Thread Joey Hess
George Danchev wrote: Therefore I exchanged several mails with Thomas (xorriso upstream, also CC'ed) about adding such functionality to xorriso and here is how it currently looks like: All looks very sane. * the image file (this could be the requested second firmware partition) as

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-16 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14-09-2010 01:41, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically, postprocess the image

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically, postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb stick. On the single machine I tried it on,

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid. I've attached a

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Joey Hess wrote: This would add 6 to 7 mb to iso images it's used on, I don't know how Steve feels about that. :) That itself is a minor pain, but not

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Steve McIntyre wrote: That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly in the same invocation of genisoimage, so anything we do to

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: I would be OK to commit all this but we first need a confirmation that someone will be handling the work on the installation guide side: calling for translation updates, monitoring I-G builds and releasing the new installation guide. CC'ing Felipe who, I think, is

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-14 Thread George Danchev
Joey Hess writes: Steve McIntyre wrote: That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly in the same invocation of genisoimage, so

using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically, postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb stick. On the single machine I tried it on, that booted ok without any tweaking of

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Attached patch stack handles everything on the d-i side, except firmware (see next post). It makes the mini.iso hybrid and updates the manual to document writing it to a USB stick, instead of its prior hand-waving about assembling a netboot USB stick manually. I've tested the mini.iso boots (from

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid. I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now,

Re: using isohybrid for usb bootable isos

2010-09-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now, that does that. Note that currently mountmedia and check-missing-firmware only find firmware on this second, special partition, if it's in udeb or deb files. When looking for loose firmware, it mounts