Re: Live Installs
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 03:25:29PM -0400, James Pleger wrote:
> Hey Debian Team,
>
> I see you removed all the Trixie live installs (except torrent), and not a
> moment too soon. A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the LXQt and Cinnamon
> ones, and wasted hours trying to figure out why those installs created no
> repositories. Of course, it was because you forgot the question about a
> mirror. You also forgot the popularity contest question.
>
https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ will give you images as far as I can see.
Next weekend there will be a point release for the whole of Bookworm (Debian
12.12) and also the first point release for Trixie. (13.1)
> I only finally figured it out when I saw Derek Taylor's (DistroTube)
> video. He was using the netinstall, so I tried that and it
> worked, especially after he ran into the same problem as I did, when he
> forgot to designate a mirror.. Well, I think instead of just pulling the
> live installs from the Debian website, you should also APOLOGIZE on that
> page to the many users who wasted countless hours trying to install from
> one of the live installs. You owe the Debian community that much.
>
See above. This should possibly have gone to the debian-live mailing list
but I suspect that Roland Clobus and others read both lists.
> James E Pleger
All the very best, as ever,
Andrew Cater
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