Michael Stone wrote: >On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 09:11:46PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a >>network connection to a mirror ? > >There used to be bootable business card netinst images that had almost >nothing other than the kernel and the installer, and needed a mirror to >get even a minimally functional system. I think the kernel+installer got >too porky for those images in the last couple of releases.
In the end, they were too fragile and caused a support nightmare so we dropped them. People didn't understand that they were very tightly tied to the archive, and if anything changed (e.g. a point release) things would fail. The images were also already too big to fit on a business-card sized CD. Instead, we now see people struggling with netboot setups that are similarly fragile as things change. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
