On 2009-12-31 at 14:18:13 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > netboot is for actually booting from a network. It's just a helper for > machines that can't do that automatically. It requires you to have > another machine set up to provide the boot images. > > netinst (in both flavors) boots from CD and starts the installer from > there. It just downloads packages from the network. This is what most > users want. The differrent from regular and business card is that the > former has some essential packages in the CD, the latter only the > installer itself. The latter downloads a few packages more.
Hmm. I'm certain that I didn't set up a netboot server. I booted from what is apparently the netboot CD and installed directly from a public Debian mirror. I didn't set up any special server. That was back in February, I think. I used it again a few months ago, again with no problems. Why did it work? From what you say, it shouldn't have. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
