On 11/19/2019 10:49 PM, Jun Sun wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, John. I tried that before (btw. see my comments > under "monkey-jsun" name at the end. ;0) > > The CD-ROM part does not work at all. The net installer still goes out to > the network and fetch the latest release and install. > > To prove my points, I ran with debian 10.2 net installer and mounted a > debian 9.5 CD. In the end it is the buster that gets installed. > > BTW, the main reason I asking for CD/DVD install is that, after a while old > net installer are not available anymore. And even if you dig them out from > archive CD's, they don't work anymore (probably due to some bits not > available online). That prevents me from re-producing some old bits and > potentially fixing some bugs there. If anybody knows how to work around > this, I'd appreciate it. >
Note that if you use a netinstall cd, the new version will be fetched from the internet; what happens if you use 'dvd1' instead? -- John Doe
