Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Disc Magnet
If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? Is there a way to prevent it from connecting to the internet and in that

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:03:59 Disc Magnet wrote: If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? Is there a way

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 June 2010 03:03:59 Disc Magnet wrote: If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? Is there a way

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Disc Magnet
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: The business card iso does not have  much, it sets up a network connection and downloads everything..so you need a net connection. The netinstall iso has the base system on it so you have a minimal install to work with,

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:53:42 Disc Magnet wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: The business card iso does not have much, it sets up a network connection and downloads everything..so you need a net connection. The netinstall iso has the base system

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 06. 2010 13:03:59 je Disc Magnet napisal(a): If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? The latter.

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Why do you say that CD1 would be useful if we don't have a net connection. It seems that the netinstall can install a base system as well. I hope netinstall would install a system with the basic tools like ls,

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Curt Howland
One point on the NetInstall and BusinessCard images, they do NOT work unless connected to the 'Net. Up through Woody, those images would install a minimal system. But not now, they error when there is no 'Net connection and will not continue the install. So for non-networked installs, CD#1of