Re: Network setup by installer
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:59:31AM +0000, Brian wrote:
>
> The technique just replaces installing over a wireless link from the
> start. I've been wondering why you chose not to do that and avoid the
> extra work.
Sorry for the delay in replying. An early draft of one of my previous
mails in this thread pre-emptively addressed that question, but I have
been fairly aggressively self-editing on this thread so as not to
attract the ire of those who are triggered by being expected to read
more than a few lines of text.
I had 2 reasons (no claim is made that they were good ones) not to do
the install via WiFi in the first place -- firstly I wasn't sure if the
installer would be able to use my WiFi out of the box before trying it
(eg firmware in contrib or non-free or something) and didn't want the
hassle of getting into an install and finding it falling over -- I have
this probably irrational desire to see the install go smoothly first
time. Probably been working in a corporate IT environment too long.
Secondly I knew the net install would be doing a lot of downloading and
believed (possibly erroneously) that it would be faster over a wired
connection, especially if the wireless connection out of the box were in
any way compromised eg old / dodgy / incorrectly selected firmware.
The wireless part of my home netwxork is moderately populous, the wired
part much less so.
Mark
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