On 08/05/19, Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk) wrote: > On Wed 08 May 2019 at 22:12:41 +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > On 08/05/19, Rory Campbell-Lange (r...@campbell-lange.net) wrote: > > > On 08/05/19, Andy Smith (a...@strugglers.net) wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 06:32:43PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > > > Is there a clever way of downgrading the installation to stable while > > > > > keeping the testing kernel and associated ixgbe module? ... > > > I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso on 29 April but having > > > just tested this I'm not getting a choice of distribution. I'm in expert > > > mode (console) -- perhaps I'll try again on the graphical version. > > > > I've just tried to install via graphical mode too and my 20190429 > > "Buster" netinstall disk has also has skipped the distribution choice > > step using this method. > > > > Is this something I should report? Thoughts gratefully received. > > Not unless you intend to report your failure to read and understand the > sentence prior to the section from the link quoted above. > > > Please use the netboot installation method.
Thanks for your advice, Brian. Are you referring to "It is not possible to install sid from a netinst or full CD. Please use the netboot installation method". I certainly missed that. My apologies. Setting up a tftp server in a remote data centre rack is something I'd like to avoid, but I certainly can if the ability to downgrade the installation is unique to the netboot method. Thanks again, Rory
