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Bug#548534: installation-guide: “Copying the files — the easy way” should explicitly exclude netboot



tag 548534 pending
thanks

On Saturday 26 September 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> A colleague wanted to install Debian by starting the debian installer
> from a USB stick.  Reading sections install-methods/boot-usb-files.xml
> and install-methods/downloading-files.xml, he went for the
> second method, he downloaded the hd-media boot.img.gz from
> debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-amd64/current/images/ but then as
> an ISO image, he took the only one there, mini.iso, and thus the
> debian installer told him it couldn't find a valid installation
> image. Maybe the text should explicitly exclude netboot from the
> images that can be used (see attached patch), and refer to section
> install-methods/official-cdrom.xml for downloading netinst/businesscard.

I've added a footnote that does both.

Thanks,
FJP



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