Re: Re: Is the a 'contrarian' Debian install available?
I think I have also read somewhere that netinst is a minimal system that
is capable of hardly anything, except downloading and installing more
packages from a mirror on the web. For this to
be true in any meaningful sense, I had always assumed that it is capable
of booting from hard disk.
And Tom is finding that his install is not capable of doing that. The
sequence of events for a netinst type install is that at some point
*before* the CD is popped out, the grub boot program is written to the
MBR space on the hard disk. Then after rebooting you are offered the
tasksel dialog to specify what you want installed into the final system.
OTOH, if you use businesscard, you do your tasksel before popping out
the CD, because, I suppose,
the businesscard install is not capable of booting from what it has
written onto the HD, just as a 'live' disk does not automatically write
itself onto the HD. But Tom never said anything about the properties of
businesscard, or about using businesscard in his experiments.
If I have recalled incorrectly, and the netinstall CD does ask for
tasksel selection before popping out the CD, then there is very little
observable difference between the two. (Also, not something
that Tom expressed an interest in. ) And, perhaps both install systems
that are incapable of booting from HD. That is very minimal, indeed.
I really am not sure. All my 'facts' are hardly more than vague
recollections of reading stuff.
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