Re: Problem installing
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 19:12:16 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:02:56 +0100
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > Are you saying that mini.iso does not contain a proper repository
> >
> > The mini.iso contains the bare minimum to start d-i and connect to a
> > network to obtain everything else.
>
> Correct as far as it goes....
Thank goodnrss for that :).
>
> >
> > > and that's why it fails?
> >
> > No archive to communicate with - no installation with the moni.iso.
>
> Not entirely. With no networking, the mini installer will make a bare
> minimum installation from its build-in micro-repository. All packages
> will be as of the date of the CD, of course.
There isn't any build-in micro-repository. Language, keyboard and
network are the only things dome by the stripped down installer
before connectting to a mirror.
Note that the OP did not have a network issue:
> The installation media do not seem to contain a valid
> Release file,...
There isn't any point in attempting to continue. The installer cannot
download the rest of itself (to do partitioning) or the base system.
> If that bare minimum gives you enough to reboot and set up the network,
> you can go from there, manually installing whatever else you wish.
That is not the case.
> If that bare minimum doesn't give you enough, you have some finagling
> to do.
>
> If you need firmware to reboot, install with the "unofficial" mini
> which includes firmware.
There's an unofficial mini.iso? Link?
--
Brian.
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