On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 16:53:19 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 04/11/2018 à 16:44, David Wright a écrit :
I was under the impression that "netinst" stood for "network installer",
so the image only contains what's essential to bootstrap a standard
system (or greater) from the network (Internet or local mirror).
Netinst images contain everything required to install a functional
basic system even without a network.
Sure, except for the fact that I don't know how your "functional basic
system" is defined. But I am assuming that it's something less than
your system (above) with "all packages with Priority: standard and
their dependencies", which is designed to provide "a reasonably small
but not too limited char-mode system" (Debian Policy Manual).
What it is, exactly, that you get by installing from netinst without
any Internet connection whatsoever would, I think, require an
experiment.