Bug#604839: Bug#988472: Bug#604839: [installation-guide] Planned overhaul of chapter 4.3 "Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting"

2021-10-09 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Brian Potkin wrote (Sun, 3 Oct 2021 14:45:29 +0100): > > You should be able to see to which device the USB stick was mapped > > by running the command dmesg after inserting it. > > I would add lsblk, with a link to its manual page. > > You should be able to see to which device the USB st

Bug#621788: Please support encryption without separate /boot, with encryption support in current GRUB2

2021-10-09 Thread Gregor Riepl
> Current GRUB2 supports directly reading encrypted partitions via > dm-crypt and LUKS. This allows setting up an encrypted disk without a > separate unencrypted /boot partition. Please consider supporting this > configuration in debian-installer. Grub currently doesn't support LUKS2 very well.

Bug#604839: [installation-guide] Planned overhaul of chapter 4.3 "Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting"

2021-10-09 Thread David
On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 05:03, Holger Wansing wrote: > > I'm thinking about (long overdue) updating chapter > https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/ch04s03.html > "Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting". > - #988472 proposes to no longer use "install-mbr" to install an MBR o

Bug#604839: Bug#988472: Bug#604839: [installation-guide] Planned overhaul of chapter 4.3 "Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting"

2021-10-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat 09 Oct 2021 at 11:21:54 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, Hello Holger, Thank you for your consideration > Brian Potkin wrote (Sun, 3 Oct 2021 14:45:29 +0100): > > > You should be able to see to which device the USB stick was mapped > > > by running the command dmesg after inserting

Bug#604839: [installation-guide] Planned overhaul of chapter 4.3 "Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting"

2021-10-09 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, David wrote (Sat, 9 Oct 2021 21:56:24 +1100): > I see that the suggestion to use 'cat' comes > from #604839. > > Yes, 'cat' will "work", however I feel there is no > good reason to use 'cat' there. > > Because the purpose of 'cat' is for concatenating > multiple files, and it also requires