Hi all, Sorry for jumping in. Just a small voice. While I haven't tried the latest netinstall but my experience in alpha 2 was that I had to run it couple of times before it was able to do the needful. I do not know the reason for it other than the fact that net connectivity at my end goes down sometime.
https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/broadband-issues-and-reliance-jio/ The whole idea of netinstall at least for me is and was a progressive installer. Just having the base image should be enough to have a console and a sources.list which has #### Debian buster ######### deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main as the default. I removed contrib and non-free (for firmware related packages) and have a base for people to use from start. Also maybe have a different desktop then LXDE (mate being preferred) but dunno if this can be achieved. If there is a way to workaround so that it doesn't download LXDE and downloads mate-desktop and at the very least gives me a console and apt would be pretty satisfying. I know this is bit different than Debian Edu goals (lxde being preferred for low-memory usage) . If needed can make another bug report but would like to hear what other people think before putting the bug against debian-cd if it's a worthwhile pursuit. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8