Hi Brian, On Mon, 01 Jun 2015, Brian Potkin wrote: > [...] but put it down to things coming and going during the testing period.
Ok, duly noted. (Un)happy coincidence that I used just one of those. > Surely the method you describe on your blog and the use of the hd-media > method allows this? Yes, but is tedious to update/ > Another method is to partition the stick. [...] Of course, this is an option, but doesn't allow you to have multiple iso images to be booted (or, ok, unless you make many partitions). I agree, there are many methods, but it is about convenience. > The author of iso-scan has this to say: > > iso-scan is part of the Debian installer[1]. > > However, it is only included in the hd-media initrd. There is no reason > to include it on the regular CD initrd, because isohybrid allows > mounting the USB stick directly. (Not a loop-mount of an iso file > included in some disk, which the hd-media initrd handles.) > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2013/09/msg00097.html Thanks, I will ask Joey whether I don't want to reconsider this opinion. Nowadays laptops practically never come with CD drive, and in many cases you don't want to go out and buy a new USB stick just for installation,and you don't want to rescue all your data from the usb stick before installing Debian. On Mon, 01 Jun 2015, Christian Kastner wrote: > In an age where the cheapest USB drive (at 5€) will get you 16GB, and > 10€ will get you a 32GB, with sufficient space for 3 resp. 7 full DVD > images, perhaps this statement should be revisited. Here I agree. > Having a single USB drive with eg multiple Jessie images, say for > various popular architectures, and without having to resort to > hd-media[1], would be nice. As well as here. All the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150601232553.gf6...@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at
