On Tuesday, July 18, 2017 08:20:20 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > WHY DO PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO INSTALL DEBIAN USING A LIVE CD IMAGE > > ESPECIALLY WHEN IT HASN'T WORKED IN MANY YEARS > > GRRRR > > Why don't people use the installer to install? > > I just can't understand.
Well, just in an effort to attempt an explanation, maybe it is sort of a historical / immigration artefact--I haven't tried to install Debian from a live image, and I have only vague memories of attempting it with some other distro, but, iirc, some other distros used to advertise / claim that capability.