> I have a USB stick that is used for installing Wheezy and which is
> recognised on reboot. Instead of writing DVD1 to the stick I do the
> following:
>
> 1. Have a FAT16 partition spanning the whole stick. Format as vfat.
>
> 2. Install GRUB in the MBR and copy the hd-media vmlinuz and initrd.gz
> to /boot and write a grub.cfg to boot from them. Copy DVD1 to /.
>
> 3. Copy the files in /pool on DVD1 to /debian on the stick. Create a
> packages file in /debian. We now have a mirror which can be used
> during and after the install.
>
> 4. Install, preseeding with a late_command for tasks. A few lines of
> mine in that command are
>
> mkdir /target/media/usbmount; \
> mount --bind /hd-media /target/media/usbmount; \
> sed -i 's/^/#/' /target/etc/apt/sources.list; \
> echo "deb [ trusted=yes ] file:/media/usbmount/debian wheezy main" >>
> /target/etc/apt/sources.list
>
> 5. Install additional software after the install by mounting the mirror
> on /media/usbmount.
What I do is to hack /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00CDMountPoint
to read,
Acquire::cdrom {
mount "/media/usb";
}
Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/usb";
where usb was cdrom. Then the the system looks for the installation
media at the usb port.
Phil.
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