Re: Business Card ISOs

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Chris Bell <chrisbell@overview.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun 10 Jul, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> > I wonder if the businesscard size is usefull at all. Any system you
>> > can install with the businesscard images you can also install with
>> > just the netboot.iso (~4Mb). Only drawback is that netboot breaks _if_
>> > the next point release gets a new kernel-image for D-I.
>> 
>> The cd team wondered the same thing at a meeting yesterday at DebConf.
>> If anyone knows of any really good reasons to continue making the
>> businesscard images instead of only netinst (and d-i's netboot iso of
>> course), it would be good to let us know.
>> 
>
>    A new user may be happier to install the correct kernel for their
> hardware during the initial installation, even if this means that it must be
> downloaded from a network connection as with the businesscard installer,
> rather than completing an initial installation with a general "vanilla"
> kernel and then having to replace it.

Which is what netboot does.

MfG
        Goswin