Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> writes: > At http://mirror.internode.on.net/ I was unable to find any debian > iso,
They're under "debian-cd", not "debian": $ rsync -hhr mirror.internode.on.net::debian-cd/ | foldr grep -- .iso$ i386 netinst -rw-r--r-- 277.00M 2015/01/11 00:32:40 7.8.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso -rw-r--r-- 485.00M 2015/01/11 02:22:46 7.8.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-7.8.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso I think this is an artefact of how mirror.ion does its mirroring. > and selecting i386 at https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#verysmall > then selecting CDROM presents weird stuff. The first archive has a > win32.exe in it! No iso. #verysmall appears to be referring to the netboot (cf. netinst) media, for CD version of netboot look for "mini.iso", e.g. http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > But a quick google gave me > https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/ which at > "netinst CD image" actually presented an iso, instead of leading back to > the same weird stuff as at the netinst link in the previous paragraph, > as the naming similarity threatened. Phew! That should've been from https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcd (cf. #verysmall you mentioned). #verysmall = netboot = ~20MB (d-i kernel, ramdisk & bootloader) #smallcd = netinst = ~120MB (that + udebs (installer modules)) > The new "improved" installation methods being pushed, with their excess > of instructions and complications seem an enormous step backwards. > What's wrong with "whack it in and reboot"? AFAICT your main problem was clicking "Tiny" instead of "Small" :-) All the methods you mentioned above aren't new; they've been available since at least 2009. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
