On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:00:25AM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: >Hello > >I was trying to download the netboot image for amd64, >because the one I have (2018-12-06) has a segfault in libc6. > >The link on the installer team page > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >for the _netinst_ image points at > >https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha4/amd64/iso-cd/debian-buster-DI-alpha4-amd64-netinst.iso > >and it seems to download fine. > >When I mount the iso image, README.txt says the version is >Debian GNU/Linux buster-DI-alpha4 "Buster" - Official Snapshot amd64 >NETINST 20181206-23:37
By "the iso image", you mean... ? >So the same date as the netinst image. uh-oh. > >The links for "other images" like netboot point at > >http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/ > >which was also last updated on 2018 Dec 6th, >acoording to boot-screens/f1.txt > >Question: >Are we sure all the images are in sync? >I have faith in Steve's team but thought I should ask all the same. >Is there a way to check the _netboot_ image is from the same >set of sources as the _netinst_ ? The images team doesn't make the _netboot_ image - that comes straight out of the d-i build. So... the path to the current buster netboot image also points to the same d-i build (20181206) that was used for the d-i alpha 4 netinst/CD/DVD build. From my local mirror: lrwxrwxrwx 1 mirror users 8 Dec 6 19:08 current -> 20181206 But... The problem you're most likely seeing is caused by a simple fact. The *netboot* image ends up downloading significant chunks of the installer and the base system at runtime from the suite it targets. For buster, that is still very much a moving target and it's likely to already have incompatibilities with the released 20181206 netboot image. Netboot images are *only* useful and safe when they exactly match the state of the Debian release they're targeting. That's either a stable release, or within a couple of days of the build happening if you're looking at testing. For any other purposes, IMHO you're massively better off using a _netinst_ image instead. Or install stable and upgrade. Hope that helps! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...
