On Wed 15 Mar 2017 at 13:44:39 -0500, David Wright wrote: > (Posted to debian-www as well.) > > On Wed 15 Mar 2017 at 12:21:14 (-0500), Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > Is it just me, or are the "unofficial" images hard to get to? For example > > the FAQ says "Sometimes, someone is kind enough to create unofficial > > non-free CDs. If you cannot find any links on this website, you can try > > asking on the debian-cd mailing list." Yet there is no link there to the > > unofficial pages. Yes Google finds them.... > > You are not alone. The problem as I see it is that it's easy to find > this page: > > https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
It is also just as easy to find https://www.debian.org/CD/ and then https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ which leads to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/ without any right clicking or rubbing out. > on which three options are given. When you click on an architecture, > the 2nd and 3rd options take you to directory pages. However, the > (most popular?) first option has ISO links¹ which you certainly don't > want to click on if you're playing by the rules. What rules are these? > If you copy the ISO link (right click it) into a browser's address bar > and rubout the ISO name itself, you'll get to (for i386): > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/ > > This difficult-to-find page will not only satisfy those searching for > SHA sums, but it also has a paragraph headed: It is shown above that it is not difficult to find. > Non-free Firmware > > which gives you a link to firmware-inclusive versions, daily/weekly > builds etc etc. > > ¹ Bad design IMO. They ought to take you to > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/<architecture>/iso-cd/ > This page has links which make it obvious what they're pointing to— > huge files! The netinst ISO is hardly huge.
