Bug#851539: Stretch RC1 netinst installer prompts for additional CDs
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 02:53:29PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:24:31AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >On 01/16/2017 07:56 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> >>
> >> How does it help for the firmware-included images?
> >>
> >It makes it possible to use them to install from CD rather than from the
> >network.
>
> Exactly.
>
> When we first came up with the idea of the firmware-included images,
> an explicit use case was meant to be "boot off firmware netinst, add
> other discs as apt sources" to make things work well. I'd not
> understood why that wasn't working for quite a while, and then took a
> long time to get around to fixing this.
That seems entirely reasonable. However, does the prompt make sense for
the non-firmware-included images? Or could it go away for those, to
reduce the number of questions asked?
- Josh Triplett
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