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   Petri Kaukasoina to NoEMail@home.org   
   Re: setup on install disk   
   02 Dec 23 09:31:04   
   
   From: kaukasoina3dore73js4@sci.fi   
      
   root   wrote:   
   >Shortly after 15.0 came out I made a bootable USB stick   
   >from the installation iso. I used that to install   
   >15.0 on my current machine.   
   >   
   >This afternoon I tried to re-use that install USB and   
   >I found that there was no setup command. Any ideas of   
   >what happened?   
      
   How did you find there was no setup command? If you mount the USB stick and   
   browse its contents, you shouldn't see it.   
      
   You boot your machine from that USB. Its boot loader prints some info and   
   after the prompt 'boot: ' you press RETURN and then it loads the kernel and   
   an initrd containing the setup system. Then you select the keyboard and   
   after pressing another RETURN, you are root in the setup system. Now, you   
   type 'setup' and you say it doesn't work?   
      
   The setup command is in directory /usr/lib/setup of the setup system. The   
   setup system is extracted from an XZ compressed initrd image (if you mount   
   the iso9660 partition of the USB stick, the initrd image is in   
   isolinux/initrd.img).   
      
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