On 06/06/2021 09:51 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 07:48:06AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:There is *functional/quality/?* difference between an install from a physical CD/DVD and from an "equivalent" flash drive.There's no functional difference: the .iso image is exactly the same.
YOU ARE IN ERROR! There IS a functional difference *BECAUSE* the the image is identical.There is a hard-coded ASSUMPTION that the installation medium is a physical DVD.
[SNIP]Is there some way, during the initial installation, to drop to a terminal to specify additional packages to be installed? As preseeding can do essentially the same thing the required framework must exist.
Is there some way, during the initial installation, to drop to a terminal to specify additional packages to be installed? { As preseeding can do essentially the same thing the required framework must exist.}
The installation manual recognizes that flash drives exist but does not go far enough that the new user can have the same access to all the packages on THAT installation medium.