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Removing the French contributors list, adding debian-boot as suggested in the initial thread (on debian-www only), and also debian-cd that might be of help here. Setting reply only to debian-www and debian-l10n-english, since it's a web page issue (but this can be argued), and that debian-l10n-english contributors kindly offer to address it. Please refer to the full thread [0] for more input. 0: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2011/09/threads.html#00149 Full quote of one of the last mail bellow, let me just add (with my www contributor hat on) that your help is really welcome on this issue: this page [1] should continue to offer direct links, together with a short information as it is now (and making this information accurate and understandable would definitely be an improvement ;-). Merging information from the CD part [2] would also be welcome, so we may remove the last page to avoid dispatched and redundant information. 1: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst 2: http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ Le 21/09/2011 04:00, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > Hi again, > > Just a few quick clarifications. > > Justin B Rye wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> - A _netboot_ image ("small bootable CD image for network install") >>> contains only the Debian installer components needed to boot up, >>> connect to the network, and acquire the rest of the installer from >>> a Debian mirror. This is usable for non-netboot setups, too! >>> >>> - A (larger) graphical variant of the netboot image. >>> >>> - Another variant of the netboot image for Xen guests. >> >> Yes... do all of the cdrom images include the graphical installer? > > Yep (including netboot/xen/mini.iso), with the exception of the the > tiny cdrom image > > <debian > mirror>/dists/<release>/main/installer-<arch>/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > > mentioned above. > > [...] >>> - The _hd-media_ image > [...] >> I can hardly see the point of it either, now we've got iso-hybrid. > > Thinking about it more, that boot.img.gz is a (writable) VFAT > filesystem could be handy, since it means your installation media can > double as a drive for shuttling ordinary data between machines. > > The sequence of steps required > > 1. Decompress boot.img.gz and write it to a USB stick > 2. Resize with gparted to fill the drive > 3. Copy in a mini.iso > > is just two more than ideal. ;-) > > [...] >>> 1. A netinst image, which will at least set up a basic >>> non-graphical Debian system if the installer is not able to >>> connect to the network. It fits on a Mini CD (at least for >>> i386) today, and hopefully it will continue to tomorrow. >> >> s/netinst/"cdrom"/, but with a caveat that it isn't only for CDs; I'd >> suggest saying that it fits on "anything more capacious than a >> businesscard CD". (When would anyone use the even smaller .iso?) > > Based on <http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/>, the netinst size is > capped on i386 at (and generally near) 180 MB, the size of a typical > Mini CD (and much larger than many businesscard CDs). > > The businesscard image, which seems less useful now that > netboot/mini.iso and netboot/gtk/mini.iso exist, was once capped at > 40 MB (it's closer to 50 MB now) and fits on a businesscard CD. > > netboot/gtk/mini.iso is around 30 MB. netboot/mini.iso is ~20 MB. > > Smaller images can be downloaded and written to media more quickly. > Users of smaller images can benefit from bugfixes after the media was > written if the installer components left out are retrieved from an > up-to-date Debian mirror (though that probably doesn't come up very > often). > >> The MANIFEST implies that the ones for use on USB devices are >> "hd-media" (also an odd name, which gets Google hits for digital video >> players) and only the PXE version is "netboot". > > netboot/*.iso can be booted from USB devices, starting with squeeze > installer beta 1 (30 October 2010). > > 'night, > Jonathan > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJOegvaAAoJELgqIXr9/gny+g4QAIdAbdDNl9cMs2n8ydSETnMF nj9vpFwN9oL3RUH0AtGRzXL7lnHF35Er9EECDFLdzaADGqUgDKZkYevyQN0nxYCS VzBH2/huB3jpJpVawbPrrqpRFUtPVMcG0uAEYeArARChI2CI8ocjDzsrcNHpD2XF XucjuC77N+EpQvgyVrPvpYckZBCyiAEO8TBelIyfAiQrLSH6TGDPyoaqDEKSUrqO oPaVMKWwT2XUVVp3BUtt91pzhUr9f1DF20yDzR2TEus9gBMZHSzIrikV5dAV/qmb o/oBA7cp2cBeUCMWo3HfDJooD6mqIImp/HYUmOaFrsySxQCzt4BCqPrJs2mdTj79 rvBYad2tyKbvzFBIO1EyDKmAqvJAfZ0Gx08jPFgYjKmKCYOArK09TJNGHTd+mC/8 8Rs3syQHS936MIkShQ5nQrMc/LR4PW/2XL+JI+EqjVS+CyxPwc0JLHKD4a5ed1Yt N3BSf/mSJS6Iy/Q3RyTN43jLVHXWh9rRnDqdHReTWmeeyx18C90+2z4XszKZcauk 3f98h9wx/kEXzbp/9IiDmSUeIMvsuzKuRbwG+YKwQqxOtPJLoobRIByT/7kMxJO0 OrAy8SqJGaB4iPbyMpTJs0s+pQEMfaTWSCElxJF2ya6SZLJ12VUnoxtix8kqLAXI FjDbWIWGBGaxR/nfmyFH =bky9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7a0be0.4070...@debian.org
