hi! first of all thanks for the great work with d-i, it is really cool! after playing around with some images I found netinst confusing, I thought it was "full networked installation (d-i included)" but that is netboot! Attached there is a patch for three types of images (maybe there are more?) thanks, filippo Index: doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/debian-installer/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.18 INSTALLATION-HOWTO --- doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO 6 Nov 2003 19:09:07 -0000 1.18 +++ doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO 8 Nov 2003 19:36:30 -0000 @@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ The installer team provides different types of images for the debian-installer. None of these images are yet available on Debian mirrors, but there are a few semi-official places to get different kinds of images. +There are different types of images, one for each different installation +flavour: + +netinst: contains d-i plus core packages to have a base system +businesscard: contains d-i but core packages are retrieved directly from + network +netboot: contains only essential d-i modules to get the network up and + running, everything else (d-i modules and core packages) will + be retrieved from network The debian-cd team provides known working builds of CD images for debian-installer here: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ @@ -75,7 +84,7 @@ 2.2 The dreaded floppies If you can't boot from CD, you can download floppy images to install -Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.ing, the floppy-image.img and +Debian. You need the bootfloppy-image.img, the floppy-image.img and possibly one of the driver disks. - net_drivers
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