Re: Is the a 'contrarian' Debian install available?
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> 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.
The last sentence of my post, linked to above, is "the netinst
installer can, at most, install a base system without an internet
connection."
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