On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 16:12:20 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Brian composed on 2016-03-16 19:21 (UTC): > > >On Tue 15 Mar 2016 at 22:41:14 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >>Pity it took me until it tried to use CD1 to do a net-install to realise > >>that!! And I have now run out of writable CDs. :-( I had just enough for > >>this shenanigans! > > >Why any Debian user should use an antiquated technology to install is > >beyond me. USB sticks are two a penny. Isohybrid images rule; OK! > > USB sticks, being of a non-uniform variety of sizes, shapes, speed, and > reliability, are a pain to library. Inferior amount of space on which to > write on them contributes to the library problem. Pricing of USB sticks on a > per device basis remains much higher than OM, making creation of a single > device for single purpose generally much more expensive than OM. There still > exist working puters that cannot boot USB. I have several.
So do I. There are ways round it. But the vast majortiy of users are not using the ancient machines you and I have. The OP is at liberty to indicate whether her machine falls into this class. A round shiny disc could be her only solution to booting a Debian image. > Not that I routinely burn OM to install Linux. For that I usually don't burn > anything, instead installing by loading an installation kernel and initrd > with an already installed bootloader. HTTP installation means up-to-date at > the outset. This makes installing Debian straightforward for everyone? Compared with just putting an image on a USB stick?