Hi, Am 6. April 2025 23:58:41 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org>: >[Private reply, but feel free to quote it publicly] > >Hi Holger, > >On 06/04/2025 at 00:20, Holger Wansing wrote: >> On Sat, 5 Apr 2025 18:09:13 +0200 BW <m40636...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> This is the year 2025 and I can promise you that 99% of all installations >>> are NOT performed from a CD/DVD media, but from USB flash/network or >>> whatever, but NOT an optical media. >>> >>> But still you have designed the installation for CD-ROM? >>> >>> If I "burn" the installation-iso to a USB flash media and do an >>> installation I will not able to do an "apt update" or install any packages, >>> because CD-ROM is set to be main repository. >>> I have to modify "/etc/apt/sources.list" to get a working system. >>> I'm not saying it shouldn't be possible to do an installation the we did it >>> in 1990, but please design the system to how 99% of all people actually >>> install Debian today. >> >> What you describe (installing packages inside the installer, but by hand, so >> bypassing the installer) > >I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the submitter complains because >when you install from a DVD or larger installation image on a USB flash drive, >d-i (apt-setup) leaves the "cdrom:" entry in /etc/apt/sources.list enabled and >in first position, and as a result, after the installation apt will wait for a >non-existent CD-ROM when requested to install packages which are present in >the installation image.
Ah, I missunderstood that, it's not about installing additional packages within the installer, but in the installed system. Now reading it again, it's indeed clear, but ... hmm, don't know, what drove me wrong. Thanks for correcting me. So, it's another report of "please disable the sources.list entries from installation media, when installation is finished". But there's no difference, if the CD/DVD image is on optical media or on USB... It does not get any updates in any case. Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
