On 18-07-17, Jason Wittlin-Cohen wrote: > Many people have had issues installing with the Live installer on this > mailing list. The question is why Debian even offers the option if there > is no interest in testing it to make it work. The initial live installer > images (9.0, before 9.0.1) were completely broken and could not even begin > the install[1]. Clearly, this resulted from a complete lack of testing as > it would have been easily caught given that it is a deterministic error > that to applied to ALL the live ISOs. I think it's unfair to blame users > for using the Live media as an installer. Either test the live images to > make sure it can be used for installation on a wide variety of hardware, or > don't provide the option at all. It appears that the debian-devel mailing > list HAS called for more testing due to this situation with the explicit > threat that live images will cease to be produced if nobody wants to test > them [2]. With that said, users should always use the regular d-i > installer images to do an actual install. The live images are useful for > testing to see if your hardware is supported and also for recovery. > > Takeaway: If you want to install Debian, either use the network installer > (small installation image) or use one of the DVD images (large installation > images), NOT the live disks. You can download either here: > https://www.debian.org/distrib/. Only use the Live ISOs to test out Debian > and to ensure hardware support. If you have a need for non-free firmware > to complete the install (e.g. non-free network firmware for wifi devices), > use the images here > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.0.0+nonfree/amd64/bt-dvd/ > . > > [1]https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/9.0.1-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00335.html >
Trouble is that live images are, judging by my torrents, most popular media of choice. Just debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-gnome.iso was uploaded for 23 GB, while debian-9.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso is on 14.68 GB and debian-9.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso is on 463 MB. So, something in big red letters should be there on Debian site as a warning for people not to download live for install. At least till we get 9.0.2 live iso.
