George Danchev wrote:
> Therefore I exchanged several mails with Thomas (xorriso upstream, also
> CC'ed)
> about adding such functionality to xorriso and here is how it currently looks
> like:
All looks very sane.
> * the image file (this could be the requested second firmware partition) as
>
Joey Hess writes:
Hi,
> Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about
> > a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make
> > iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly
> > in the same invocation of genis
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On 14-09-2010 01:41, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org):
>> I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i
>> alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically,
>> postprocess the
Joey Hess writes:
> Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about
> > a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make
> > iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly
> > in the same invocation of genisoimage
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> I would be OK to commit all this but we first need a confirmation that
> someone will be handling the work on the installation guide side:
> calling for translation updates, monitoring I-G builds and releasing
> the new installation guide.
>
> CC'ing Felipe who, I think,
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to make me complain about
> a useful feature. The *more* difficult thing is trying to make
> iso-hybrid work with jigdo: we make the .iso and .jigdo files directly
> in the same invocation of genisoimage, so anything we do to
> pos
Hello,
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>>Joey Hess wrote:
>>This would add 6 to 7 mb to iso images it's used on, I don't know how Steve
>>feels about that. :)
>
> That itself is a minor pain, but not enough to mak
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>Joey Hess wrote:
>> So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's
>> partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done
>> by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid.
>
>I've attac
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org):
> I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i
> alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically,
> postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb
> stick. On the single machine I tried it on
Joey Hess wrote:
> I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now,
> that does that.
Note that currently mountmedia and check-missing-firmware only find
firmware on this second, special partition, if it's in udeb or deb
files. When looking for loose firmware, it mounts
Joey Hess wrote:
> So ideally, debian-cd would add a small second partition to the iso file's
> partition table, and tack on a FAT filesystem. This could probably be done
> by running fdisk on the iso file after isohybrid.
I've attached a patch with a script, which I am checking into d-i for now,
Attached patch stack handles everything on the d-i side, except firmware
(see next post). It makes the mini.iso hybrid and updates the manual to
document writing it to a USB stick, instead of its prior hand-waving
about assembling a netboot USB stick manually.
I've tested the mini.iso boots (from
I've done some investigation of using isohybrid on an iso image (d-i
alpha1 i386 netinst) to allow it to be booted from USB stick. Basically,
postprocess the image with isohybrid, and write it direct to the usb
stick. On the single machine I tried it on, that booted ok without any
tweaking of isohy
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