On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 07:24:36AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > >>With Beta 2 we have lost the option to (easily) install without using a > >>network connection. There have been several comments about this. > > >Please keep in mind that there is a distinction between having no > >network connection and no Internet connection. > > This distinction is not important, as somebody can install from a mirror > in the LAN.
I have the gut feeling that that distinction _is_ important. And as with all gut feelings, it is hard to explain. > IMHO Frans is addressing the problem, where somebody _wants_ or _needs_ > to install from CDROM only. Yes, the 'no_net' is ambigious, 'cd_only' expresses better what is going on. On the Debian Wiki I just make this change: | Diff for "DebianInstaller/EtchBeta3Prep" | | Differences between revisions 45 and 46 | Deletions are marked like this. Additions are marked like this. | Line 17: Line 17: | * Support installation without network. * Support ''CD-ROM only'' installation. The same change as unified diff --- 45 2006-04-18 11:42:36.000000000 +0200 +++ 46 2006-04-18 11:42:04.000000000 +0200 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ * Have graphical installer as part of daily builds and release * Udeb dependency transition is in progress * (DebianInstaller/LibraryUdebs). * Two packages remaining that * need to be updated before integration can start: glib2.0 and pango1.0. - * Support installation without network. + * Support ''CD-ROM only'' installation. * Support installation of Sarge. * Fix issues with running tasksel. * Crash when installing in non-UTF-8 encoding. Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]