Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a > u-sd, so you get that crap regardless and must physically remove it > before a staticly defined, hosts file based network that has not had a > functioning dhcpd server even in my original 1998 install of red hat > 5.0 will work. Please stop speading misinformation about how Debian is installed. Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer, also for boards using U-boot. See e.g. the user notes for Allwinner-based boards at https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Install_Using_Debian-Installer It is true that you can leave it to others to prepare an installation for you, so that you only need to dump their pre-installed image onto your boot disk device - e.g. as done with the preview image for Raspberry Pi offered at https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi3. It is also true that you can have others make a derivative of Debian and offer you that as a pre-installed image - e.g. as done by Raspbian and Armbian projects. The "crap" you get using unofficial pre-installed images is not on Debian but on those pre-installing and on you using those instead of Debian. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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