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Re: RFC - Installing (un)stable from full/netinst CDs



Frans Pop wrote:
> The question is: what is the best solution here:
> 1) do not allow the user to select the suite in choose-mirror if the CD
>    has /cdrom/.disk/base_installable
> 2) if a suite was selected that is not on the CD, forget about the CD and
>    install from the network instead
> 
> My personal preference is 1.

We could also find a way to postpone choose-mirror until after the base
system is installed. I think I'm with you in preferring 1 though.

> A related issue is possibly that the suite and download location used for  
> udebs should be frozen somehow as we do not want an installation that was 
> started using the stable installer to suddenly start using udebs from 
> testing/unstable.
> This is not an issue for daily images (as mirror/udeb/suite is set at 
> build time), but it is for beta's and the official release.

Not an issue AFAIK, these CDs do not have network-retreiver on them.

-- 
see shy jo

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