On 18.07.17 10:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:14:52AM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > www.debian.org -> "CD/USB ISO images" > > That's where your eyes go? That's interesting.
Only because this time it's an install from USB, and it's under the heading "Getting Debian". > My eyes skip the banner with its embedded "download me" link (because > it's a friggin' BANNER, and decades of web use have taught me to skip > all banners), and skip the small print sections, and drop me straight > to the link that says "obtain a copy" <https://www.debian.org/distrib/>. That's where I've gone in the past. Unfortunately the maze has grown new rat runs - some with traps. > On the second page, there's "Download an installation image" and > "Try Debian live before installing". Sadly, the instructions under > the "Try Debian live" link claim that the live image's installer will > work. We all know that it doesn't, but the instructions continue to > claim that it does. This little maze-runner is learning too. Thanks for sharing the insiders obstacle-avoidance info. > > , then choose the only possibly > > viable alternative to CD/DVD, since there's no CD/DVD on the new host. > > You also skipped the "Network install" link right above your "CD/USB > ISO images" link. I wonder why. The host isn't yet connected to the network. There's no more room on the desk, and I don't have a spare long ethernet cable, remiss though that is. > On the page you went to, there are two yellow lightbulb boxes, one saying > to use "Network Install" instead, and the second saying "all CD/DVD images > can be used on a USB stick too". > > Somehow you skipped over those as well. "friggin' BANNER" Erik
