Re: [tlug] Bootable Debian Installer on Multi-partition USB Drive

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2019-03-06 15:38 +0900 (Wed), Darren Cook wrote:

> Well, not me, but I read an article on this just this week: "GRUBby USB
> drives" in Linux Format #246. I took a snapshot, to refer to later, but
> don't have it to hand at the moment. If you there on Saturday I can show
> it to you then.

I will be there. Thanks. I hope it will be useful, but see below.

> The article title is the clue to how you do it: you install grub, then
> can set up various OSes. One of their examples was a minimal hardened
> linux, and you set up the remainder of the USB drive for it to use as
> persistent storage.

I've done this before by doing a standard Ubuntu or Debian install on
to the USB drive (booting the installer from another USB drive), but
what I'm actually looking for is not an installed system, but the
installer that lets me install systems.

(Though if I can get both, all the better! Come to think of it, I
might be able to install `debian-installer-launcher` on an installed
and running Debian system, and run it, but I'd rather have a
separately bootable thing so I don't need to decrypt that system's
drive in order to run the installer. No sense in typing that disk's
encryption password on untrusted hardware more than I really need to.)

cjs
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