On Vi, 22 iun 12, 20:48:31, Paul Condon wrote: > 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. Maybe you are remembering sarge with its two step install? Haven't seen this since. > 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. The difference, as stated already, is that netinst contains some packages, AFAIK the packages that will get installed even if you don't select anything at the 'tasksel' step (not even Standard). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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