Re: Is the a 'contrarian' Debian install available?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Brian wrote:
> On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 14:08:25 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:45:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > At some point in my series of posts someone said I could not get a
> > > functioning minimal install using netinst.iso if internet connection
> > > [for whatever reason] was not available.
> >
> > They are mistaken, you can. (but 'minimal' is truly that.)
>
> If it had been said it would be erroneous, But, as far as I can tell, it
> wasn't said. The final paragraph at
>
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/06/msg00850.html
>
> is spot-on. Of course, this may not be the post the Richard is referring
> to.

It's not. I'm not even sure where the exchange took place. 
I've been having several lightly related conversations.

As I write I was doing another test install. It appeared to 
proceed normally up until I was instructed to remove the CD. 
Seems to have crashed with a bunch of error message. From 
the form of the messages I suspect bad memory. I'll have to 
retry and pay closer attention to the screen. Now just where 
did I put memtest ;<