On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:59:31AM +0000, Brian wrote: > > The technique just replaces installing over a wireless link from the > start. I've been wondering why you chose not to do that and avoid the > extra work.
Sorry for the delay in replying. An early draft of one of my previous mails in this thread pre-emptively addressed that question, but I have been fairly aggressively self-editing on this thread so as not to attract the ire of those who are triggered by being expected to read more than a few lines of text. I had 2 reasons (no claim is made that they were good ones) not to do the install via WiFi in the first place -- firstly I wasn't sure if the installer would be able to use my WiFi out of the box before trying it (eg firmware in contrib or non-free or something) and didn't want the hassle of getting into an install and finding it falling over -- I have this probably irrational desire to see the install go smoothly first time. Probably been working in a corporate IT environment too long. Secondly I knew the net install would be doing a lot of downloading and believed (possibly erroneously) that it would be faster over a wired connection, especially if the wireless connection out of the box were in any way compromised eg old / dodgy / incorrectly selected firmware. The wireless part of my home netwxork is moderately populous, the wired part much less so. Mark
