On 21.07.2014 23:55, Raif S. Berent wrote:
>> Debian has no provisions for booting iso images from a server. 
> The regular live iso also fails to boot from HDD with loopback. As
> posted somewhere along the thread, it seems that debian's loopback
> kernel module must be extracted and placed on the HDD. Then one must
> interrupt the install, drop to a shell, load debian's loopback module,
> mount the debian iso with loopback and exit the shell. Only then will
> the iso-loopback install work.
> 
> I'm not claiming to be correct - it's just what I read and the iso
> file's behavior seems to support the theory.
> 
Most of the thread arises from misunderstanding of bootloader and initrd
role. It created loads of wrong statements.
There is no sane way to use isolinux cfg from iso simply because it's
not designed to handle iso scenario, only real CD one. If you use
loopback.cfg as intended it will all work.
>> The netboot images work just fine. (including live images)
> Yes, but this is a "minimal image" as I understand and additional
> binaries (for example if you want an lxde desktop) will be downloaded.
> That's fine for a single install, but requires re-download of same
> packages should one aim to install on several systems.
> 
> If there is one, I have not come across a desktop (gnome/kde/lxde) live
> image+netboot iso file in the repository.
> 
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