Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>
> Catherine Gramze wrote:
>>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Particularly where you have encountered it where it takes you past the point
>>> of no retreat before you discover that you need a network driver, so that you
>>> have wiped your old install and cannot continue to install your new one.
>>>
>> How about the last time I installed Debian using a netinst dvd?
>
> Sorry, what? There's no such animal as a netinst dvd... The netinst is
> a minimal-ish (small) CD-sized image that just contains the installer
> and the (very limited) base system. The DVDs we make are much more
> complete.
When you burn the netinst iso to a dvd, because you can't buy blank cds anymore in any local stores, you have a netinst dvd. I can't remember the last time I saw a cd in the wild.
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