On Fri 10 May 2019 at 08:49:25 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 10 May 2019 at 13:44:03 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 06:31:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > That's one of a number of possible guesses of OP's intent. > > > > Yep :-) > > > > > I've asked questions others have thought vague though I thought were > > > quite explicit. People read through lenses of their personal > > > experience and assumptions. > > > > > > >> A. machine's hard-drive. > > > >> B. a second USB drive. [be careful to place grub on correct drive] > > > > > > That was cautionary, primarily to future newbies who might need an > > > explicit statement of what is obvious to the experienced. > > > > Yes. I understood it as "the OP wants to understand the boot (and the > > corresponding installation) process". > > What worries me about this thread is that the OP (who doesn't seem to > know how the various parts of the d-i are meant to work together) has > just last week posted a recipe claiming to install Debian using only > vmlinuz and initrd¹, ......
That's a claim which can be sustantiated. -- Brian.
