On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:30:41AM +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> The images you have created are for use only alongside other discs in >> a set; they contain extra packages that you could add to your system >> via "apt-cdrom add; apt-get install $package". > >The installation manual does not say that. >In the description of the various possibilities of downloading debian >there is the section where the production of the jigdo-iso-image is >described. At the end it directs the reader to the installation manual. >There nothing is said about the difference between using a 'normal' >bootable iso image and using the jigdo-iso-image. >Thus I assumed they are equivalent.
Apologies if I've caused any confusion here - the jigdo-created images are *exactly* the same as what you'd have if you downloaded the ISO directly. You've just picked some DVDs from the middle of a set, that's all. Only the first DVD in a set is bootable, the rest are just there to hold more packages for users to install. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
