On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:53:36AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > First, it's misnamed. People expect it to somehow involve booting > from the LAN, which it doesn't. That confuses people. Once they get > that figured out, the existence of a "network install" CD makes them > wonder what the "businesscard" CD is, if not a network install CD. > That confuses people.
So propose a better name? Debian has been providing "netinst" images longer than it's been providing "businesscard" images, though; yes, there is some confusion about the difference between net*inst* and net*boot*, but I don't think that's a good reason to eliminate a very useful media type. > Second, it's significantly larger (factor of 3) than the > "businesscard" image, but still not complete -- even for a small > server (non-X) install. You still need access to the Internet (or a > local mirror repository) to complete the installation. And you have to download much less from the network than you would with a businesscard. If you're installing more than one machine and you don't have a local mirror, the netinst download immediately pays for itself. > Fourth, it's too big to download without broadband. So are full DVD images. So what? > If you do have broadband, you still don't want the netinst image. No, netinst is my image of choice for a quick download and install in a broadband environment. Unless I'm going to be doing an install in a low-bandwidth situation, even the first full CD is likely to contain packages not relevant to what I'm doing. > Finally, nobody has a good idea of what should be on it. It's > neither fish nor fowl, and everybody expects something different of > it. Sorry for your confusion, but it's quite well documented what this image contains and does. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
