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Re: DebianLive images are not for installing ?



On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 01:46:42PM -0500, limpia wrote:
>Hello,
> I am sorry to be a bother, there seems to be a "rumour" of sorts,
>some people are claiming the Debian 9 live images can not be used
>to install Debian.
>http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=647025#p647019
>"quoted"To point out first, it seems the Live image of Stretch is not for
>installation purposes, as others here have already discovered."end qouted".
>
>  I could not find anything in the Debian documentation confirming this,
>but in any event, I am wondering if any one can confirm this, or is it
>a myth ? It seems odd that Debian would produce a live image that can not
>be used to install as well.

There was a bug found in live-wrapper - see the errata list on the web
at

  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/

(for example). I've found the cause of the bug and rebuilt some new
images (9.0.1) which are being tested now.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?


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