Re: the future of the netinst image
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:08:07PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 26-03-2007 om 12:22 schreef Steve Langasek:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:03:56PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > Op 25-03-2007 om 14:38 schreef Steve Langasek:
> <snip/>
> > > > but it's quite well documented what this image contains and does.
> > > Where? http://www.google.com/search?q=definition+netinst didn't help
> > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
> :-/
> Go one directory up, http://www.debian.org/CD/ and text search 'netinst',
> it is not there :-(
> Reading http://www.debian.org/CD/ reveals the "link text"
> 'Download a minimal bootable CD image' which points to ''netinst''
> But the 'netinst' is 180Mb and the 'business card' _only_ 40Mb.
So there are some documentation fixes that need to be made to the website I
guess, to let users get accurate information about the images.
That's certainly not grounds for dropping a very useful image type.
> And then there is the undocumented feature that did trigger this thread:
> The i386 netinst has only 1 kernel and doesn't offer download other kernels.
<shrug> if there's actually agreement that it's a bug, then it's a fixable
bug.
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