On Monday 18 August 2008, Eugeny Zadevalov wrote: > > The etchnhalf netinst contains the needed components (udebs). > > That's really strange, since that iso doesn't contain "/dists/lenny". Blame the way debian-cd puts a CD image together... > So, I guess netboot and cdrom targeted d-i initrd images are > completely different. Is that the case? Yes. Although from another PoV they are also basically identical. It's just how you look at it. [1] has a table that shows the essential differences between images. etchnhalf is a bit more complicated because it is a cross between stable and testing. > I guess the side effect of the way how netboot images are build is > what we saw with recent bug #494532. Not really. That was just a major inconsistency on the mirrors for testing. Nothing to do with what's already included in the image itself. > I suffered the same issue and wasn't able to install new machines over > PXE until package was re-added to the repository, that's why I thought > to stick with .iso based (consistent) image. The iso is consistent, as long as you use it as an iso... [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/index.html#id474596
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