On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 02:53:29PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:24:31AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > >On 01/16/2017 07:56 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> > >> How does it help for the firmware-included images? > >> > >It makes it possible to use them to install from CD rather than from the > >network. > > Exactly. > > When we first came up with the idea of the firmware-included images, > an explicit use case was meant to be "boot off firmware netinst, add > other discs as apt sources" to make things work well. I'd not > understood why that wasn't working for quite a while, and then took a > long time to get around to fixing this.
That seems entirely reasonable. However, does the prompt make sense for the non-firmware-included images? Or could it go away for those, to reduce the number of questions asked? - Josh Triplett