Re: Debian Installer Buster Alpha 4 release
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:29:27AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (2018-12-17):
> > But... The problem you're most likely seeing is caused by a simple
> > fact. The *netboot* image ends up downloading significant chunks of
> > the installer and the base system at runtime from the suite it
> > targets. For buster, that is still very much a moving target and it's
> > likely to already have incompatibilities with the released 20181206
> > netboot image.
> >
> > Netboot images are *only* useful and safe when they exactly match the
> > state of the Debian release they're targeting. That's either a stable
> > release, or within a couple of days of the build happening if you're
> > looking at testing.
> >
> > For any other purposes, IMHO you're massively better off using a
> > _netinst_ image instead. Or install stable and upgrade.
>
> What Steve says is particularly true when there's a difference in major
> libc version (2.27 vs. 2.28; the latter has just migrated to testing
> right after the general block-udeb in britney was lifted).
>
>
Thanks for that. I have just test booting off a USB drive with
the netinst.iso image (written with dd) and it works fine.
This seems like an opportunity to improve the documentation...
When I was looking at the notes on [1] I was unsure how to
get the ISO image onto a USB stick. However that is now covered
in the manual, so perhaps a small pointer would be helpful:
For extra convenience, these images may also be written directly
to a USB stick.
+ The <a href="https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apa.html">Installation Howto</a> how to do this.
One other thing might help others avoid the same mistake:
in [2] could something like this be added to the Notes section?
* The "other images" such as netboot are only useful and safe
when they exactly match the state of the Debian release they're
targeting. In almost all cases that will be a _stable_ release.
In particular, alpha and beta releases of the installer are
likely to be unusable for more than a few days.
Apologies for the noise
Vince
[1]
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha4/amd64/iso-cd/
[2]
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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