On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:58 PM Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 21/01/2021 à 21:52, Erwan David a écrit : > > Le 21/01/2021 à 21:46, Brian a écrit : > >> On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 11:08:56 -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >>> Now, Brian said that "the installer's initrd does not contain a loop > >>> module", so that would indicate that if i want to use > >>> debian-10.7.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso, i'll need to get it on the disk > >>> (presumably by just unpacking it somewhere --- prior to booting, i can > loop > >>> mount it and copy it to a 'real' directory), and then modifying > >>> /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.gz to be paths that grub understands. > Or, > >>> maybe the debootstrap method Bastien suggests would be good. > >> You can manipulate debian-10.7.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso in whatever way > >> you want. It will still not be loop mounted by hd-media. > >> > >> You are heading off into the wild, blue yonder. > >> > > A possibility would be to set up a PXE server, tehre are ways to do a > > netinstall with a PXE boot (boot on the network). > > > > There surely are tutorials on the net for this. > > > > > Most obvious : https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall Thanks Erwin for your message and the link. The problem with pxeboot, is that i would have to get into the bios to change the boot order. The bios does have an option for pxe boot, but i cannot reliably get into the bios: after many tries i was only able to get into it a couple of times. So if i had a way to reliably force my way into the bios, it would be very valuable, whether for pxe boot or just anything else. Thanks again everybody for your help. dan
