Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror
On 2018-11-05, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 09:11:46PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a
>>network connection to a mirror ?
>
> There used to be bootable business card netinst images that had almost
> nothing other than the kernel and the installer, and needed a mirror to
> get even a minimally functional system. I think the kernel+installer got
> too porky for those images in the last couple of releases.
>
>
I never knew what a bootable business card was so I avoided those.
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