On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:50:36AM +1300, philip wrote: >On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 11:09 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> It would be kinda cool if the installer could deal with multiple DVDs >> at once: >> >> Allow people with two or more optical drives to put DVD-1 in one of >> them and DVD-2 in the second (and so on, if necessary/possible) and >> have the installation “just work” with no swapping of disks in >> drives. >> >> Then (the really cool part) if that could be extended to allow >> multiple .iso images (possibly located in a separate partition on the >> same USB stick we booted the installer from) to be mounted as if they >> were actual DVD drives and continue as above… >> >> I have no idea at all what it would take to implement this, it’s Just >> a thought! >> >> Enjoy! >> Rick >> >> PS: Would a wish-list bug against debian-installer be appropriate? > >Hi, > I have been pushing for a complete archive on a usb stick since >old stable (forgotten is name) and nothing has happened so far. > >In my frustration I have produced my own and the jigdo's can be found >at http://www.copyleft.co.nz/download.html > >The size of the image is ~60 GB and needs to be loaded onto a 64 GB >stick in the usual way. > >I discovered the hard way that debian-cd does not produce a fully >functional image suitable for loading on a stick and that some changes >and additions had to be made to the finish-install udeb. > >If anyone is interested in the details please contact me.
Hi Phil, I'd be interested to hear what's wrong there, definitely! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead
