On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB > USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: > > o Formatted my pen drive as a single 2GB FAT16 partition (/dev/sdb) > o Did a "# syslinux -sf /dev/sdb" to make it bootable > o Downloaded > > "http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso"; > and placed a copy of this iso file on the pendrive as netinst.iso > (renaming was not due to any particular reason) > o Opened the iso image in file-roller and copied the '/install.386' > folder from it to the toplevel directory in my pendrive. > o Then copied all the files from the '/isolinux' directory in the iso iimage > to the toplevel directory in my pendrive. > o Renamed isolinux.cfg in the pendrive to syslinux.cfg. > > When I try to boot from the pendrive, it boots just fine, and the installer > starts OK. But then, it cannot find the cdrom. Thats OK, because there > is no cdrom in the drive. But I want it to install from the 'netinst.iso' > image. > But I can't find a way to make it do the install from the iso image. > > Can anyone tell me how to make the installer install from the iso image? > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Regards, > Santanu
Have you tried mounting the image from the console (in the installer) and then pointing the installer to the local repository? Adrian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
