On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 06:00:55PM +1300, philip wrote: >On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 01:10 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:50:36AM +1300, philip wrote: >> > >> > 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! > >The initial installation works well. > >But if a flash drive is to contain a massive amount of software then it >is reasonable to expect that the user will want to use the stick to >install extra software, herein lies the problem. The stick has to be >mounted by hand. > >I have developed a scheme that modifies the installed system at the end >of the installation process so that it will automatically mount the >installation stick as an optical disc when it is inserted.
Hmm, OK. Yes - I was wondering if there was anything new you'd found. I'm pondering about newer/better ways to describe a Debian archive so that machines will automatically pick them up without the hacks, or needing the stiff G&T... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.
