Re: ISO download difficult

[Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:55:20AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I have no opinion about win32-loader since I've never used it and would
> never use it (I don't even have any family members who would use it or be
> able to use it), so I'm really unqualified to comment.  What you describe
> sounds great for people starting from a Windows system.  That's just not a
> problem I've had in about 20 years.
>
> I don't want work on win32-loader to *replace* making download of a
> working network install USB image easier, since that's the change that
> would help me and those I know the most.  I'm very happy if we can do
> both!

Seconded. win32-loader sounds very good for some people but not for
everyone.

I've literally installed Debian on a work-provided laptop this week; it
came with a RHEL7 variant pre-installed and I didn't even boot that (I
might have to at least have a look, but I was too lazy to look up the
instructions to find the IT-supplied default LUKS passphrase).

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