On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 21:11:46 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 05/11/2018 à 16:51, David Wright a écrit : > > On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 16:53:19 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 04/11/2018 à 16:44, David Wright a écrit : > > > > > > > > I was under the impression that "netinst" stood for "network installer", > > > > so the image only contains what's essential to bootstrap a standard > > > > system (or greater) from the network (Internet or local mirror). > > > > > > Netinst images contain everything required to install a functional > > > basic system even without a network. > > > > Sure, except for the fact that I don't know how your "functional basic > > system" is defined. But I am assuming that it's something less than > > your system (above) with "all packages with Priority: standard and > > their dependencies", which is designed to provide "a reasonably small > > but not too limited char-mode system" (Debian Policy Manual). > > Not much less than this. Some "standard" packages may be missing.
It certainly appeared so from my dpkg -l listings from various installation stages. > > What it is, exactly, that you get by installing from netinst without > > any Internet connection whatsoever would, I think, require an > > experiment. > > Been there, done that. As I wrote above. I couldn't determine whether you'd actually installed a system in the manner Brian just suggested (which is what I would do), or merely examined packages in the pool or Packages file (which is all that I was able to do). > PS : aren't you confusing "netinst" with "netboot", which requires a > network connection to a mirror ? I've never used netboot as it's too complicated to bother with in my situation. In addition, I always need non-free firmware to run all the wired and wireless NICs. Cheers, David.
