On 02/17/2014 10:38 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Question: how can I reconcile the above datum with, "because there's > currently no debian-installer in jessie"?
By the way, since this has apparently also been misunderstood by Stefan as "there are no Jessie installer images", and he suggested I "explain the technical and conceptual background", here goes: There is no debian-installer *in* Jessie. This does not mean that there are no builds of installer images (still in development & not yet released) that default to install Jessie. Daniel already pointed you at the sid / daily images (though I will reiterate, these are for developers, not end-users). In early development stages, material targeted at the next release starts in unstable, and occasionally experimental. It does not migrate to testing (Jessie, in this case) until it no longer has RC bugs. Having RC bugs means "it is not suitable for release", i.e. not ready yet for users. Because there are no installer images suitable for release, the standard advice for users wishing to install Jessie is "install Wheezy first, then upgrade". If you ignore that advice, you might luck out and get it to work, and then again you might not. At this point, if it didn't work out well for you, it is very difficult for an end-user to engage with the developers at a level that will be useful to them for solving the problem. In later stages of development, the d-i developers will make early public releases and actively solicit input from testers. We have not reached that point yet. Until those announcements are made, I advise users to avoid the sid/daily installer images. Finally, on the matter of finding snapshots of old installer images that might work, there is a *slim* chance that might work, but I give it poor odds. A netinst not only depends on the packages within the netinst itself working, but also on the software selected during installation being installable on a given day. With multiple transitions in progress at this development stage, you can't always depend on that, so a netinst image built in December and working in December may not still work today. As I indicated in my previous message, debian-user really is the best place to seek support for this problem, as we're now well outside the realm of what the Debian Live project is responsible for. I wish you good luck. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
