Hi, Looking at the installation manual the network installation files
will probably work better. The issue is that all of my network cards
require non-free firmware to load is there a version of the GTK network
boot files that contain this firmware? With grub in the default
configuration can you type in a label to launch it or would I need to
remember where it is in the menu and do the menus wrap around or can you
enter in the number of the item to boot? Nick Gawronski
On 8/30/2021 3:33 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Nick Gawronski, le lun. 30 août 2021 07:22:01 -0500, a ecrit:
What would I need to do after I made a copy of the initial ramdisk image
gzip file and the kernel to /boot to run the talking version of the
debian-installer
Simply a grub entry that runs
linux /the/kernel speakup.synth=soft
initrd /the/initrd.gz
I don't have another partition to use to dd the iso file to?
As I mentioned, telling the installer where the iso image is, if not in
a partition, will be complex.
You'll thus probably rather want to use the netboot files:
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/gtk/debian-installer/amd64/
whose initrd will just download all the rest from the Internet.
Reading the debian installation manuals there are no directions on
internally running portions of the installer like what I am trying to do
Indeed, we cannot document everything, and in particular tinkering with
the internals of the installer. The installation manual is already
long enough that a lot of people seem not to tend to have a look at it
nowadays...
Samuel
