Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso from cdimage.debian.org. Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso /dev/udisk`. It booted, things seemed fine until the step of finding the install cd (sorry I cannot remember the exact menu item name now). It

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 17:39:22, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi, Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso from cdimage.debian.org. Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso /dev/udisk`. I think the only image that works when booted from the target media is

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 19 February 2012 10:54:17 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 feb 12, 17:39:22, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi, Just want to reinstall a debian box, so download the daily built iso from cdimage.debian.org. Since I am out of CDR, I simply `cat the_iso.iso /dev/udisk`.

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 12:00:19, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Sunday 19 February 2012 10:54:17 Andrei POPESCU wrote: I think the only image that works when booted from the target media is the mini.iso (GTK or not), but you need a reasonably good internet connection because even parts of the

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've had situations where the daily builds have thrown a media change message and asked for the disk that was already being used to install the system to be put into the machine. Unfortunately, the drive door is locked and the media change dialog only respects alt-fx alt-f2 ... and ejecting