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--- Begin Message ---Package: installation-guide Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hi, With the rising popularity of such devices, booting from USB memory sticks is probably becoming the most common method of running the Debian Installer. At the same time, introduction of isohybrid images made HD images mostly obsolete, I think. Still, section 4.3. (Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting) does not even mention this. Speaking about HD images: to my surprise they don't contain a partition table, so they are more partition images instead. Regardless, they usually work as full disk images, because the Syslinux boot sector works well in the MBR as well. But not always, cf. #604245 (still under investigation). But anyway, why is this so? This is inconsistent with the "flexible way" and also with the isohybrid ISOs. This also takes away the possibility of repartitioning the image (after writing it) to make room for firmware or whatever... For squeeze, this sentence should be deleted from 4.3.2.2.: If you want to rename the files, please note that syslinux can only process DOS (8.3) file names. It's complicated business, cf. http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems#What.27s_the_real_name_of_that_file.3F for further details. In practice, long filenames work all right. One more addition: the syslinux package contains MBR code as well, there's no need to install the mbr package, as 4.3.3. suggests. One can simply cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin >/dev/sdX and make the boot partition the only active one. Finally, as #509938 points out, Syslinux isn't restricted to FAT since 4.00. This may be worth mentioning at least; I guess everybody with an EXT[234] formatted USB stick would be able to install Syslinux on it (via the extlinux command et al.) In summary I think a moderate overhaul of this section is needed, and I'm willing to help out. But I'm not sure about the status of the isohybrid images vs. boot.img.gz-s, for example... -- Regards, Feri.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: installation-guide Source-Version: 20220129 Done: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of installation-guide, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> (supplier of updated installation-guide package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 23:37:50 +0100 Source: installation-guide Architecture: source Version: 20220129 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <[email protected]> Changed-By: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Closes: 408643 603444 604839 838948 988472 992034 992183 993475 Changes: installation-guide (20220129) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Holger Wansing ] * Update supported devices in Bullseye for armel. * Include a note on how to change init system during install. Closes: #992034 * Add missing preseed line for apt-setup in example-preseed template. Closes: 992183 * Don't call 'Linux' an operating system, use 'GNU/Linux' instead. Closes: 993475 * Some clarifications on preseeding. Closes: #603444 * Preseeding: add a comment about automatic network configuration being the default method. Closes: #838948 * Document the new 'avoid the tasksel prompt' preseeding feature, introduced in pkgsel 0.69. * Overhaul of chapter 'Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting'. Closes: #604839, #988472, #408643. * Some corrections/optimizations in doc structure related to graphical installer. * Consistently use 'text-based' for the text installer (newt frontend) instead of 'character-based' or 'textual installer'. * Improve description of popcon functionality. * Remove mark for Spanish being an unsupported/outdated translation, thanks to eulalio. * Document how to preseed disabling of 'cdrom' sources.list entries for DVD/BD installation images. . [ Samuel Thibault ] * Provide more details on the textual front-end keyboard shortcuts. * Fix partman-partitioning/choose_label type to select. . [ Stéphane Blondon ] * Update CSS for notes, warnings and code block . [ Updated translations ] * Catalan by d * Chinese (simplified) by 吕文彬 and Boyuan Yang * Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert * German by Holger Wansing * Italian by Luca Monducci * Japanese by Hideki Yamane * Portuguese by Miguel Figueiredo * Romanian by ionut eugen * Spanish by eulalio * Swedish by Luna Jernberg Checksums-Sha1: fc116e52e53bd2f85b7039464c5dda2707df7c2a 2843 installation-guide_20220129.dsc b2ad855aaadf77d80f8b167f33221a50ada4e139 3781500 installation-guide_20220129.tar.xz 2175b110c8b2beb771ef79dcecc72e2554e220f6 14807 installation-guide_20220129_amd64.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: d43727fca414b433e969b65d35b2082ce6fff4266f52e3d3dd9b6268746b3e47 2843 installation-guide_20220129.dsc ddb01f4057a7cf93f2dd19a77893e9135adf0a20043dc99029cfde3e1b43566b 3781500 installation-guide_20220129.tar.xz edb2281b9f06fe4ad6c73085e2a8c9161dece309ce5754c5907e2d6a5e151243 14807 installation-guide_20220129_amd64.buildinfo Files: 895181f326d8155e39340d4be2a60ffd 2843 doc optional installation-guide_20220129.dsc 828e7f886b9ec59eb92d8be23aa98667 3781500 doc optional installation-guide_20220129.tar.xz f8b124059c5580ed9424388ebf058240 14807 doc optional installation-guide_20220129_amd64.buildinfo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEi6MnFvk67auaclLJ5pG0tXV4H2IFAmH1zfQACgkQ5pG0tXV4 H2Lv0RAAjH8GbtSJAAAJ71P4NrIkcmfKseGgY531onJBrZl79VHTTXMEi7q7NGgT cuTc5GF6fgUCIkBrpm/uJ4KhIgG4/0hAzB96nz+Y7v+idSjae0ugvYHQAOT+QNhQ 117EuwUhgpixNLNCDNurvrgjSCM4xpQVoSSRYp4rrMBOBIewRcLyTb1KtWifDN/s /yGjCMCAvMPi5KRld96cNxTXKFa66isI954sAugpt6o+goCL86iOFCd663dsldrY QZHCOm9jT13L02HvGhH5rsOWusr3s1RYPu5tOlYh3oHpSyYV3rmDpNB+WzajSWHb 11xSyGUsI5MT76iEu/xGDDiZe9LPISO8cLnwiafYyBtVVWs+wZaSpDRKswSZ0hpp atGNVAZUJ8bLG1yCPc3rKyOPoVJCnNTgiOPrVPClsWiGa8+pzY3H58gdN93w/R1R 0qbFa0MmwzmRV0j82tXgmDQmwCM2PXa8Ams06KY/Xtetk51cV6vs3yRchTwAyhME OJHqeQspBS7X80lq04rtqPizZ1qmTFf8Z1jU32cDAJtoVSvtpWSSgKgkGqln52bD 7yZRyDkYF+HENqS/Higm2f0PDo027/+vRhQqS1BwW4AyQqejDgDU1LNFzPuWnNVj jU4raBtgK7aAsnrmOEgHdfLooRjKAIxEbcNvpuWZgCjezQrAPUM= =r2jO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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