On 10/08/2025 at 19:18, Holger Wansing wrote:
Am 10. August 2025 18:40:58 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg
<[email protected]>:
When installing from a DVD image, the default is to disable the use of a
network mirror, which may be tricky if you do not pay attention and just press
[Enter]. See attached screen shot.
Since in
<https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/apt-setup/-/commit/c2f00f4e712b8afb580cf561485d683ba6a5a9f5>
we chose to disable sources entries for more cases (so a higher chance for such
disabled entries in summary),
This change was only aimed to disable installation sources on drives
other than optical discs (USB, SD card...) for convenience because they
would be unusable and break apt after installation anyway, regardless of
network mirror setup.
maybe we should think about changing the default in the dialog mentioned above?
I guess the default should be set to the most desirable option for most
users of DVD images.
(or make that smarter: switch the default to Yes, if the entries for cdrom
sources are tend to be disabled, or No otherwise?)
Smart indeed. Also the installer could warn the user that the
installation media will be disabled after installation, encouraging them
to use a network mirror. Daniel's reply inspire me another idea: some
users may wish to not use a network mirror during installation but have
it set up on the installed system.
