Where to give path to Debian installer to select ISO successfully booted from USB
 

I was able to boot from my USB to begin Debian installation screen which after loading kernel gave ncurses based screen asking me to give the location of ISO
I formatted the USB to two partitions
/dev/sdb1 (bootable) 1GB
and /dev/sdb2 6GB
after rebooting the debian installation process does begin. But I do not want to use
the 20MB business card ISO Instead I have the 4.2 GB ISO on other partition on USB how can I make it take read that image so that installation begins from the 4.2GB ISO on other partition.
Do I need to edit in syslinux.cfg some thing or how can I bring the grub command prompt so that I give it the path to kernel and initrd or syslinux can not take ISO from other partition.

since no-one has replied let me make a suggestion

when you get to that stage of the install next time try

pressing control and f2 button to start a new getty.
if it appears you can log in as root
if it appears then

mkdir /z
mount /dev/cdrom /z

then control + f1 to get back to installer screen and name pathway as /z and hopefully installer will search and detect it

Isn't it Ctl-Alt F1?

you can also try netbootcd 3.2.1 multidistro net installer
http://netbootcd.tuxfamily.org/

or

Billix which also has debian net installers
http://sourceforge.net/projects/billix/

I use netbootcd and include it in almost all my distros here
http://linux.softpedia.com/progMoreB...isX-31789.html

I'm pretty sure the installer will scan the root directories of all partitions so you don't have to tell it which one the iso is in.

Thanks for this I did not had that idea.
I will try and post.
Thanks but I want to learn the process so for fun I am doing it that way i.e. manually.


Okay but how to do that ?

I am not sure if this reply was for this thread.

Quakeboy02

my apols...control + alt + F2

as F1 is already working

I was just trying to point out that it's CTL-ALT-F(whatever) instead of just CTL-F(whatever). Sometimes it's little stuff like this that get people stuck. But, I suppose if I'd paid more attention it would have been clear that you are way beyond that stage. Apologies.

You might also try unetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ I believe it will allow you to put an iso anywhere and install from it.