On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:34:54PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: > Hello. I maintain the unofficial Debian woody netinst CD image. When I built > new images against b-f 3.0.19 earlier this week, I was very surprised to see > that the installer no longer supports downloading the base .debs from a > Debian mirror, and now requires them on some sort of local media. > > I find this very inconvenient, since it more than doubles the size of my CDs > - 29mb without packages, and ~80 with. > > Are there any plans to reintruduce this feature? I really liked the extra > flexibility that was provided wrt installing the base system. > > P.S. - Please CC on replies, I'm not subscribed.
You mean, when you select Install Base, it doesn't give you a list including cdrom, network, already mounted partition, hard disk (not mounted), etc? Where can I get the netinst image? I know I saw it flash by here once, but I don't remember. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
