On 1/5/23 18:20, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 05:45:27PM -0700, Fred wrote:
>> ...
>> I will try your exact steps here tomorrow. However, your earlier post
>> implied the .disk directory was in the root directory. I mounted the usb
>> sdb1 on another computer and found the .disk directory does not exist. I
>> created it and put the info file there as in the previous post.
>
> Could you please verify that the iso you have does indeed have the
> sha256sum of:
> 0923470af430e3d582a635956bbe4c13abc18fbaa4704e6deef3b362833e0ef5
>
> because a missing "/.disk" directory was exactly the reason why new
> devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_* isos were made, replacing the previous ones.
>
>> I just checked on the problem pc.
>> df -h shows two entries:
>> tmpfs mounted on /run
>> devtmpfs mounted on /dev
>>
>> This computer does not have a cdrom. It has a hard drive and a bunch of USB
>> ports. I put the cd3 .iso on another sd card with dd but it is not detected
>> as a cdrom. On another computer it shows up as sdb with no partitions. If
>> mounted as sdb it does show lots of files.
>> The installer in the problem pc is very single minded about wanting a cdrom
>> and I found no way to make it accept the cd3 usb (which shows up as sdc).
>>
>> If I have to I can buy a usb interface cdrom drive. However, the server
>> .iso should have everything included on the usb with the installer and the
>> cdrom should not be necessary.
>
> Yes, the first USB should have it all, and its first partition should
> be mountable as an iso9660 filesystem onto /cdrom. I.e. either
> /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdb should be mountable as a iso9660 filesystem on
> /cdrom by the installer.
>
> "The installer" in itself is the initrd.img that you find on the path
> /boot/isolinux/initrd.gz that gets unpacked in the intial boot
> loading, plus extended with some packages from the accompaning pool on
> the media.
>
> Ralph.
>
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Hi Ralph,

Yesterday I worked with the server iso since the netinstall didn't work.
However, today I will try again with the netinstall since that is what
you are working with and I will make the .disk/info file.

fred@ragnok:~$ sha256sum --ignore-missing -c SHA256SUMS
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_cd3.iso: OK
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso: OK
devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_server.iso: OK

The SHA256SUMS line for the netinstall is the same as your entry above.

The three isos and the SHA file all came from this mirror:
mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/devuan-cd/

I will post later on today when I have tried the netinstall again.
Best regards,
Fred