Control: severity -1 serious On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 01:30:08PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: >On 08/08/2025 01:13, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> On 07/08/2025 à 23:29, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > >> > This is a deliberate choice so far, as discussed with the systemd >> > maintainer. systemd-boot is not a default option for installation and >> > so isn't included in all the images by default. If you make sure you >> > use a network mirror during installation, things should work fine. >> >> I just tested, it also fails because no mirror is configured. During the >> "configure package manager" step, the mirror selection does not happen. >> The package apt-mirror-setup seems to be missing in trixie live images. > >The version of the Debian installer on the live images is tweaked to perform >(at least) 2 things differently than the installer on the netinst images: >1) it copies the content of the live system to the HD instead of performing a >clean installation >2) it assumes off-line installation
It seems this second decision is causing a *lot* of confusion for users. We should try to get this fixed for the upcoming point release, IMHO. Raising severity of this accordingly. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess
