On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 06:00:30PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Robert Millan a écrit : > > > > If you plan on making this the official installer, I would strongly > > advice against replacing the old installer completely untill "netinst" > > images are provided. With "netboot" or "bussinesscard" builds, install > > process can break due to external changes in the archive, which seems > > highly undesireable. > > > > OTOH netinst is self-contained, and can even install without a network > > connection. > > That's indeed something wanted, but I don't know how to produce such > images which already include a set of packages. If someone can help on > that, that would be appreciated.
Btw, now that it is possible to install from testing/squeeze, and the likelyhood that this install path breaks is small, perhaps this is less of an issue. May I suggest making testing/squeeze installs the default, so that the old builds can finally be deprecated? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
