On Tue 06 Nov 2018 at 09:57:03 (+0000), Brian wrote: > On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 23:29:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 05 Nov 2018 at 21:11:46 (+0100), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > > 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. > > The mini.iso is functionally equivalent to netbooting d-i. Using it is > no more complicated than using a netinst iso.
Eh? Why would I want to set up a TFTP service just to install via netboot on the two PCs that can boot from the NIC when I've already downloaded a netinst image for the rest? > and non-free firmware can > be put on the medium. But it's already on the netinst firmware image. Anyway, I think you can see that I'm hardly likely to confuse netinst with netboot, which is the point I was making. Cheers, David.
