On Thu,31.Dec.09, 09:10:40, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2009-12-30 at 18:59:22 -0500, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > You probably meant netinst here, netboot is for machines that can boot > > via network. > > First of all, I need to correct the path name to the mini.iso image. > The correct path name is > > dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > > (I had "lenny" and "main" reversed in the original post.) > > Secondly, I never called it a "netboot" installation method. I called > it "the mini boot CD", which is no doubt unofficial terminology, but > does clearly indicate that booting is being done from the CD, not > from the network. That is the CD image that I used to install Lenny > on my PC at home; and I did boot from the CD, not from the network. > All of the Debian packages for the production system and many of the > installer components were downloaded from the internet, but booting > was from the CD. The only mention of "netboot" was in the directory > name itself. I agree that it is confusing that a bootable CD image is in > a directory called "netboot", but I'm not the one who decided where > to put it. :-)
If it worked good for you, but see the MANIFEST[1] file for the purpose of that file. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/MANIFEST It could be that the image works also for a regular net install, but I would rather recommend http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-netinst.iso or http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-cd/debian-503-i386-businesscard.iso Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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