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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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À: dng
Sujet: Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

Le 28/02/2015 14:55, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>> * On 2015 28 Feb 00:57 -0600, Martijn Dekkers wrote:
>>>>> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
>>>>>
>>>> some computers need a partition table on the usb-stick to boot.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> unetbootin should take care of that
>> Give it a try as I've had good luck with unetbootin on various live CDs,
>> but the Debian installer CDs seem to be a different story, at least for
>> me. I've not tried it with Devuan Valentine, however. As it is so
>> closely related to the Debian installer CD at this point in in time,
>> these instructions may be useful:
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb
> As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, isohybrid did the trick.
>
> What I don't know is whether the isohybridized version of the .iso
> would still work on a CD. If so, it might be effective just to
> distribute the hybridized version of the .iso.
>
> If not, we should possibly distribute both. An instruction to use
> isohybrid is unlikely to be useful to a complete beginner who does not
> yet have a Linux xytem available.
>
> Of course, this was a pre-alpha. Not expecting perfection and a
> vast infrastructure for all possibilities yet.
>
> --- hendrik
>


     Question to the VUAs: is it planned to provide a debootstrap, or 
devutstrap? This is very convenient when installing on embeded devices 
without a virtual terminal.


     Didier