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Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)



On Tuesday 21 March 2017 17:15:32 Catherine Gramze wrote:
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Mar 21, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 02:55:07PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 21 March 2017 14:33:29 Catherine Gramze wrote:
> >>> Refusing to continue an installation that will inevitably be a failure
> >>> is how it should act.
> >>
> >> Rot.  It will not "inevitably be a failure".  It can be a very good way
> >> out of some problems.
> >
> > Agreed.  Some people may want to install Debian on a computer that
> > doesn't have a network interface *at all*.  They should be able to do so.
> > They *are* able to do so.
>
> Of course they should. But a netinst dvd or usb stick is not the best tool
> for that. The very name lets you know that a network is going to be needed.
> Netinst is not the only installer, you know.

Yes, we do know.  You seem not to do so.  I specifically asked which installer 
you had used and were talking about.

Lisi


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