Lisi Reisz wrote: >On Wednesday 22 March 2017 17:26:56 Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> I had a "Live 8.6 MATE" DVD next to me. >> I had a minor glitch and a possibly significant problem. >> The minor glitch was when launching the installer it needed a password. >> Having seen that problem reported before, entering "live" got it going. >> >Interesting. I wonder whether that would apply to all the mainstream Live >CDs, or just the Mate one? I think they may be very individual. I know the >Trinity unofficial one was, until it became the Devuan one anyway. But it >installed OK, ran well both live and installed, and told you what password to >use in the accompanying documentation.
There have been significant issues with running the installer from a live system in the past, and unfortunately a lack of volunteer time to fix the manifold bugs found. I'd still very much recommend using a d-i (netinst/DVD/whatever) image for installation in preference - you're much less likely to hit random edge cases that way. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"