> From: wool...@eeg.ccf.org > 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.
????? what are you, an optometrist? > My eyes skip the banner with its embedded "download me" link (because > it"s a friggin" BANNER, ???? More useless and invalid information from debian to waste our time, is this what you mean? > and decades of web use have taught me to skip all banners), And your decades somehow translate into common sense? > and skip the small print sections, and drop me straight > to the link that says "obtain a copy" <https://www.debian.org/distrib/>. intuition and decades of scanning through useless information has lead you to where you want to be? > On the second page, there"s "Download an installation image" and > "Try Debian live before installing". Are you saying he did what it is told in the second page of your intutive search? For how long has there been an icon on that live desktop that says Install Debian? Or should I say for how long of this icon being false information has it stood still? Actually the icon does start the installer, it is about 40' later one discovers it is incapable of installing the system. > Sadly, the instructions under > the "Try Debian live" link claim that the live image"s installer will > work. Sadly, don't take any instruction on the web page seriously. It is all a beta web-page for when things will eventually work. > We all know that it doesn"t, but the instructions continue to > claim that it does. "We" excludes which group of people, the poor guy who wasted a few hours of his lige following instructions or is it the rest of the humanity apart from the good'ol'boys at the debian-user-gang? >> , 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. Please let "us" know what exactly network install mean, by refering us to a specific explanation in the debian.org maze. Most "common" humans would conclude that if you are a network manager and want to do remote installs on machines this is what you use. If you are not the network administrator use something "else". But, we "all" know better, don't we gangsters. Debian is only good for club menbers. Sorry guy, if you missed your sleep. You are not a member of the group. > 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. Only they obviously not all work on a USB stick. Please don't listen to RedHat emploees trying to chase new users away from Debian, be a little patient, unsubscribe from this list, and you will be ok! WE are not all assholes here!
