Re: install
On 2009-12-31 at 14:18:13 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> netboot is for actually booting from a network. It's just a helper for
> machines that can't do that automatically. It requires you to have
> another machine set up to provide the boot images.
>
> netinst (in both flavors) boots from CD and starts the installer from
> there. It just downloads packages from the network. This is what most
> users want. The differrent from regular and business card is that the
> former has some essential packages in the CD, the latter only the
> installer itself. The latter downloads a few packages more.
Hmm. I'm certain that I didn't set up a netboot server. I booted from
what is apparently the netboot CD and installed directly from a public
Debian mirror. I didn't set up any special server. That was back in
February, I think. I used it again a few months ago, again with no
problems. Why did it work? From what you say, it shouldn't have.
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