On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Mario Castelán Castro < marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote:
> On 2017-08-19 21:49 -0600 Arjun Krishnan <arju...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Once I get to the boot screen and try to run the graphical installer, it > >fails after loading the kernel. But the live cd does boot. However, the > >live cd that I booted above (cinnamon+nonfree) does not have a way to run > >the debian installer after it has booted. > > The installer needs to find its own ISO image. The non-live installer will > only search by default in the root directories of your file-systems, but > not in the subdirectories. Maybe this is the case with the live installer > as well. Try putting the ISO image in the root directory (“/”). > It doesn't seem to be finding the iso even after moving to the root directory in the usb drive. Which iso did you use? I used the netinst iso, and the hd-media kernel and initrd, both of which didnt work. > I always do a new install rather than an in-place upgrade, to get rid of > the garbage, especially packages that I install and configuration files > that I write which I forget about and no longer need. > > I have installed the latest 3 Debian releases (or maybe more) using the > “hd-image” > <https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd > > > vmlinuz and initrd.gz whose purpose is to look for the ISO image in an > existing file-system and load it. Note that these are non-live installers. > The only obstacle I have found is that the procedure to verify the vmlinuz > and initrd.gz is *not* documented, so I will describe it below. You > *should* verify your initrd.gz and vmlinuz if you follow this procedure. It > is done in several steps. Change the URIs to the mirror of your choice. I > assume that you download all files to the same working directory. > > Verify that the hash of > > (1): Download <http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/Release> > and <http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/Release.gpg>. Install > the package “debian-archive-keyring” in your current system. Verify the > signature with “gpg --no-default-keyring > --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --verify > Release.gpg”. > > (2): Download > <http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/ > installer-amd64/20170615+deb9u1/images/SHA256SUMS>. > Verify with “grep "^ $(sha256sum SHA256SUMS | cut -b > 1-66).*main/installer-amd64/20170615+deb9u1/images/SHA256SUMS$" Release”. > The verification is successful if it displays a line of text from the file > “Release” and the exit status is 0. > > (3): Download > <http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/ > installer-amd64/20170615+deb9u1/images/hd-media/gtk/initrd.gz> > and > <http://ftp.mx.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/ > installer-amd64/20170615+deb9u1/images/hd-media/gtk/vmlinuz>. > Verify with “sed -nE > '/hd-media\/gtk\/(initrd.gz|vmlinuz)$/{s/^([[:xdigit:]]*).*\/([^/]*)$/\1 > \2/;p}' SHA256SUMS | sha256sum --strict -c”. The verification is > successful if sha256sum exits with 0 status and prints output reporting > that the hash matches for these 2 files. This is for the graphical > installer. Remove the “/gtk” part in the URL and the sed script if you > want the text installer. > > Also, I DISCOURAGE USING NON-FREE SOFTWARE BECAUSE YOU GIVE UP MUCH OF > YOUR COMPUTING AUTONOMY AND ENCOURAGE THE UNETHICAL PRACTICE OF WRITING > PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE. > > Regards. >
