On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:19:30PM +0800, Glen Huang wrote: > @Geert > > It is "netinst" that you are looking for. > > I am using netinst. Appreciate the detailed steps listed, but with all > due respect, my question was about how to make the installer install > the base system from the mirror and not the installation media. The > listed steps don't seem to help with that. > > @Andrew @Holger @Steve > I take that as it's not possible to force the installer to install the > base system from the mirror? I guess the netboot image probably does > something special. > > Guess I'll just have to let the installer upgrade then. > > @Andrew > > an autoremove would remove the fallback kernel since you didn't boot from it > > I'm not sure that's the case. I tried running "apt-get autoremove" in > a newly installed Debian 11 with multiple kernels in /boot, no > packages got removed. `apt-cache rdepends --installed > linux-image-5.10.0-10-amd64` (which was the old kernel) showed > "linux-image-amd64" depended on it, so it was not removed. "apt-cache > depends --installed linux-image-amd64" showed it depended on > "linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64". > > Regards, > Glen >
Netboot provides you a base kernel, an initrd and enough of the installer to start from there. The netinst / DVD includes the base systme on it - but will still update if packages are newer on the mirror. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater
