Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)
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> On Mar 21, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
And I specified it was the netinst about 8 posts ago, immediately in response to you asking. And I have repeatedly since then mentioned netinst. You might try reading what I say instead of skimming it for things to object to.
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