How to install Debian, not using ISO?
ATA-ATAPI CDROMs are way too old and complicated technology, differs from flash chips. Working with isos was always kinda painful, required either overwriting installation media, or some drive emulation techniques. I want to learn tech and move on to convenience.
Earlier I did like following: I just tried to write somehow iso contents onto USB drive. Almost always that worked, except for some rarely used os distros, like osx. Almost always that produced installation USB media, except drive content was killed. So now i want only to "add" OS installers to USB drive.
Stick has syslinux installed, along with some useful stuff, which is strictly prohibited to erase. For Debian i looked for "net-boot" installer I am thinking that this is kind of installer that usually downloads its vmlinuz and initrd images via BOOTP/TFTP, and everything other - via Internet (using wget or whatever).
There is no much difference in pxelinux and syslinux, so I was very happy that I may add Debian installer just "that easily" without killing all the data. I downloaded those two, but ran into error: "Installation step failed: load installer components from an installer ISO" 
I am stumbled, dont know what to do next. Why do I need iso, if i alredy found a way and loaded kernel with debian installer to RAM? And installer could just download everything from internet mirrors? (As it usually did previously).
To be strict, my question is:
What is minimal file subset nesesary to have on usb drive, in order to install minimal debian system to sata drive?
debian installation usb-flash-drive installer
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
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ATA-ATAPI CDROMs are way too old and complicated technology, differs from flash chips. Working with isos was always kinda painful, required either overwriting installation media, or some drive emulation techniques. I want to learn tech and move on to convenience.
Earlier I did like following: I just tried to write somehow iso contents onto USB drive. Almost always that worked, except for some rarely used os distros, like osx. Almost always that produced installation USB media, except drive content was killed. So now i want only to "add" OS installers to USB drive.
Stick has syslinux installed, along with some useful stuff, which is strictly prohibited to erase. For Debian i looked for "net-boot" installer I am thinking that this is kind of installer that usually downloads its vmlinuz and initrd images via BOOTP/TFTP, and everything other - via Internet (using wget or whatever).
There is no much difference in pxelinux and syslinux, so I was very happy that I may add Debian installer just "that easily" without killing all the data. I downloaded those two, but ran into error: "Installation step failed: load installer components from an installer ISO"
I am stumbled, dont know what to do next. Why do I need iso, if i alredy found a way and loaded kernel with debian installer to RAM? And installer could just download everything from internet mirrors? (As it usually did previously).
To be strict, my question is:
What is minimal file subset nesesary to have on usb drive, in order to install minimal debian system to sata drive?
debian installation usb-flash-drive installer
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
xakepp35xakepp35
1641111
add a comment |
ATA-ATAPI CDROMs are way too old and complicated technology, differs from flash chips. Working with isos was always kinda painful, required either overwriting installation media, or some drive emulation techniques. I want to learn tech and move on to convenience.
Earlier I did like following: I just tried to write somehow iso contents onto USB drive. Almost always that worked, except for some rarely used os distros, like osx. Almost always that produced installation USB media, except drive content was killed. So now i want only to "add" OS installers to USB drive.
Stick has syslinux installed, along with some useful stuff, which is strictly prohibited to erase. For Debian i looked for "net-boot" installer I am thinking that this is kind of installer that usually downloads its vmlinuz and initrd images via BOOTP/TFTP, and everything other - via Internet (using wget or whatever).
There is no much difference in pxelinux and syslinux, so I was very happy that I may add Debian installer just "that easily" without killing all the data. I downloaded those two, but ran into error: "Installation step failed: load installer components from an installer ISO"
I am stumbled, dont know what to do next. Why do I need iso, if i alredy found a way and loaded kernel with debian installer to RAM? And installer could just download everything from internet mirrors? (As it usually did previously).
To be strict, my question is:
What is minimal file subset nesesary to have on usb drive, in order to install minimal debian system to sata drive?
debian installation usb-flash-drive installer
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
xakepp35xakepp35
1641111
ATA-ATAPI CDROMs are way too old and complicated technology, differs from flash chips. Working with isos was always kinda painful, required either overwriting installation media, or some drive emulation techniques. I want to learn tech and move on to convenience.
Earlier I did like following: I just tried to write somehow iso contents onto USB drive. Almost always that worked, except for some rarely used os distros, like osx. Almost always that produced installation USB media, except drive content was killed. So now i want only to "add" OS installers to USB drive.
Stick has syslinux installed, along with some useful stuff, which is strictly prohibited to erase. For Debian i looked for "net-boot" installer I am thinking that this is kind of installer that usually downloads its vmlinuz and initrd images via BOOTP/TFTP, and everything other - via Internet (using wget or whatever).
There is no much difference in pxelinux and syslinux, so I was very happy that I may add Debian installer just "that easily" without killing all the data. I downloaded those two, but ran into error: "Installation step failed: load installer components from an installer ISO"
I am stumbled, dont know what to do next. Why do I need iso, if i alredy found a way and loaded kernel with debian installer to RAM? And installer could just download everything from internet mirrors? (As it usually did previously).
To be strict, my question is:
What is minimal file subset nesesary to have on usb drive, in order to install minimal debian system to sata drive?
debian installation usb-flash-drive installer
debian installation usb-flash-drive installer
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
xakepp35xakepp35
1641111
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
xakepp35xakepp35
1641111
edited Dec 23 '18 at 16:37
xakepp35
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
xakepp35xakepp35
1641111
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
xakepp35xakepp35
1641111
asked Dec 23 '18 at 16:32
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