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From: Alan Chandler on 21 Jun 2010 09:20
I have spent the last couple of days (intermittently) failing get a usb
bootable installation for squeeze that will work with my hardware and
AMD-64 (I have inadvertently built an i386 system [twice] - because I
have an old squeeze installation on an SD card that I failed to add the
architecture label to).

I have a server which has no cd. Only real possibility is to boot from
a usb memory stick. Fortunately with the fact that I have an SDHC card
to USB adaptor I have plenty of them large enough.

Following the instructions in the installation manual section 4.3.2
"Copying the files - the flexible way" I can get a bootable installation
provided I can get an .iso

However my new system will be comprised of ext2 and ext4 filesystems and
right now there is a bug which prevents versions 2.16 of libblkid1
making such systems 2.17 works - and is available in sid (and can be
back copied into squeeze) but until it can migrate into testing (which I
had expected to happen last night - but something has now delayed it
another two days)

So downloading the weekly .iso of CD1 of testing doesn't work - because
it fails in the partitioning process of making the new filesystems.

I have also downloaded the daily netboot install which has the sid
installer (although it installs squeeze) but that seems not to recognize
either of my two ethernet cards so installation doesn't even get started.

I am not sure where to go next. Possibilities seem like

a) Get a SID CD .iso - install that and then change my sources.list to
point at the squeeze repositories once it has installed the base system.

b) Try and dynamically change the libblkid1.so.1 file once the installer
has booted.

Neither seem perfect. Has anyone any other suggestions?

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From: Alan Chandler on 21 Jun 2010 11:30
On 21/06/10 14:10, Alan Chandler wrote:
....
>
> b) Try and dynamically change the libblkid1.so.1 file once the installer
> has booted.

Touch wood! After a couple of abortive attempts due to finger trouble
and some strange loop the partitioner got into wanting to change
partition tables but not format filesystems I seem to have created my
filesystems and am in to the "Installing the Base System" phase now.

So it does seem to work

To be clear, I downloaded the sid .deb for this package and extracted
the libblkid.so.1.1.0 file in it and copied into the root directory of
the installation usb stick I had created earlier

I booted up the installer and got to the part where it wanted to
partition the disks. I then used ALT f2 to get another console

The original media was mounted on /hd-media, so I just copied it across
from there are put it in the /lib directory

I then removed the libblkid.so.1 file in that directory and symlinked
that file instead to the new file I just copied in.

I then went back to the installation (using ALT f1) and selected <GO
BACK> and then re-entered through the "Detect Disks" phase (I am not
sure it is necessary, but I was playing it safe).

voila



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From: Huang, Tao on 21 Jun 2010 11:40
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Alan Chandler
<alan(a)chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> I have spent the last couple of days (intermittently) failing get a usb
> bootable installation for squeeze that will work with my hardware and AMD-64
> (I have inadvertently built an i386 system [twice] - because I have an old
> squeeze installation on an SD card that I failed to add the architecture
> label to).
>
> I have a server which has no cd.  Only real possibility is to boot from a
> usb memory stick.  Fortunately with the fact that I have an SDHC card to USB
> adaptor I have plenty of them large enough.

if you already have grub, no external boot media is needed for debian
installation. fetch the netinst vmlinuz and initrd files, boot with
them and install from the internet.

happy to know that you've found a workaround.


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