On 2018-11-05, Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> 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. > >
I never knew what a bootable business card was so I avoided those. -- “If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.” --Norman Mailer