On 2018-11-06, Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote: > > That said, the bootable business card image is the smallest download > available to install debian without having to mess with a netboot > configuration. You can still use the mini iso with a normal cd, or via > virtual drive, etc. I used to always keep an 80mm (185MB) installer CD-R > in my bag back before it made more sense to just use a thumb drive. > > It turns out I just couldn't remember where they were, and they do still > exist: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ >
I'll bite: if the mini.iso requires no netboot, why does it find itself confined to the netboot directory? If they stopped calling it a 'bootable business card' and put it alongside the netinstall iso as the leanest competition around I just might use the mini. Then again I guess if you're downloading it you're downloading it (whether the package is integrated into the iso itself or retrieved 'on the fly') so it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, in the end. -- “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
