Re: Boot-floppies 3.0.19 question
On Thursday 14 February 2002 08:07 pm, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:34:54PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
> > Hello. I maintain the unofficial Debian woody netinst CD image. When I
> > built new images against b-f 3.0.19 earlier this week, I was very
> > surprised to see that the installer no longer supports downloading the
> > base .debs from a Debian mirror, and now requires them on some sort of
> > local media.
> >
> > I find this very inconvenient, since it more than doubles the size of my
> > CDs - 29mb without packages, and ~80 with.
> >
> > Are there any plans to reintruduce this feature? I really liked the extra
> > flexibility that was provided wrt installing the base system.
> >
> > P.S. - Please CC on replies, I'm not subscribed.
>
> You mean, when you select Install Base, it doesn't give you a list
> including cdrom, network, already mounted partition, hard disk (not
> mounted), etc?
>
Correct.
> Where can I get the netinst image? I know I saw it flash by here once,
> but I don't remember.
>
http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/
I've pulled the 3.0.19 images, though I will be putting new ones up Real Soon
Now(tm).
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