From: a...@cityscape.co.uk @ Do you not find it disturbing that someone can install Debian and not @ end up with a network connection? d-i is (generally) very good at doing @ this. It is one of its many strong points.
The new installer iso seem twice the size of their predecessors, or did I see something wrong? From skimming through the release am I to understand that if one installs 8.8 and upgrades to stretch they will not have this problem/change unless they intent to manually switch. Weird? So when one reports a bug (network related) from now on, if they are just indicating installation and architecture they must also specify the interface used From release: > This change does not apply to upgrades of jessie systems; the naming will > continue to be enforced by /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. For > more information, see /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz or the [upstream > documentation](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/). -- Brian.