Re: Putting It All On a Stick
On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 10:21:06 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote:
Andrew M.A. Cater's bluray suggestion is a good one. Most everything of
what you want should be in the image. An alternative method with more
than 3 DVDs is at
https://wiki.debian.org/Installation+Archive+USBStick
> to put a sock in this discussion, I have, in fact, gone to one or two
> locations where there was *NO* Internet at all because the person who
> wanted an accessible computer had no idea that in this day and age a
> network connection is a virtual requirement to do anything useful.
> They were quite happy to have a standalone system that could play
> insertable media, write and print things, etc. They thought even such
> things as electronic mail and basic Web-browsing were above their
> capabilities. They soon discovered they were wrong ... but thereby
> hangs another tail. The end user had a portable networking device that
> could be plugged in and activated on demand, but there were no drivers
> or other software components that were required in order to get it
> working. With a net install setup, I'd've exhausted the poor person's
> data cap in a matter of minutes, which is why I try to come prepared
> with installation media of all sorts, an yes, once in a while I get
> somebody whose machine, particularly a newer laptop, has no removable
> rotating media capability. They leave CD-DVD drives out of a lot of
> new laptops now in order to save space. They're cheap enough, so it's
> not a cost saving the manufacturers are after.
>
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