Re: live v netinst

[Padraig <padraig@fastmail.fm>]

Thanks Daniel 
For the clear and comprehensive answer. Seems then to preserve bandwidth
I should probably go with the live XFCE image since I already have one
downloaded. 

I had thought that the netinstall might give me a lighter XFCE but seems
not
Thanks again

Padraig

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  Padraig
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, at 06:59 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 10:25 AM, Padraig wrote:
> > In terms of the final packages installed is there any difference between
> > a netinst ( selecting xfce in advanced) and a prbuilt live XFCE image ?
> 
> in some cases, there is, yes.
> 
> in the live image, we include the laptop task. the installer image will
> only install that (or suggest to install it) if the system has been
> detected as a notebook.
> 
> in the live image, we include open-vm-tools and
> virtualbox-guest-additions{,-x11} packages. the installer image will
> only install (or suggest to install) virtualbox-guest-additions{,-x11}
> if the system has been detected as a virtualbox vm.
> 
> in newer live images, we do remove
> virtualbox-guest-additions/open-vm-tools if the package have been
> installed on the image but not selected manually by the user through
> other means, resulting in a default-removal even on vbox systems (yes,
> that is a bug that should be reported/fixed in live-installer).
> 
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