On 18.07.17 08:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:55:26AM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > This release of Debian came with buggy live images. It was fixed with > > 9.0.1 live images, or at least it seemed so. > > No, the 9.0.1 Debian live images are still broken when used for > installations. They fail to set a root password or to set up the primary > user account with sudo access, at least in some cases. Users in Freenode > #debian are constantly having to be told how to boot from rescue media > to set the root password. > > WHY DO PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO INSTALL DEBIAN USING A LIVE CD IMAGE
www.debian.org -> "CD/USB ISO images", then choose the only possibly viable alternative to CD/DVD, since there's no CD/DVD on the new host. > ESPECIALLY WHEN IT HASN'T WORKED IN MANY YEARS Now we see the problem. There are other distros which do install from the live image, and debian purports to do so. It just fails. > GRRRR My sentiments exactly. Debian's failure to function has wasted hours of my time. > Why don't people use the installer to install? The installer delivered with the live image, or another debian installer? > I just can't understand. If "CD/USB ISO images" had not led to a page headed exclusively "Debian on CDs", and reiterated the exclusion of USB at the first download option, I'd have given it a go. It is only debian website obfuscation which has led me to seek an image suitable for USB where it is not visibly excluded. If the live image obsesses over having a CDROM, then heaven help us with an image explicitly for ancient media - it can't possibly work on USB, can it? Erik
